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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">Inside U.S. Trade<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.5pt; background-color: white;"><b class=""><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Sanders takes on Biden's trade record<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; background-color: white;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(136, 136, 136);" class="">4/30/2019<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; background-color: white;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(136, 136, 136);" class=""> </span></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Monday highlighted distinctions between his record on trade and that of former Vice President Joe Biden, his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">In <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/29/politics/bernie-sanders-joe-biden-contrasts-cnntv/index.html" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;" class="">an interview on CNN</span></a>, Sanders was asked about Biden's early endorsements and support after the former Delaware senator declared his candidacy last week. Sanders immediately brought up policy differences, beginning with trade.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">“I helped lead the fight against NAFTA; he voted for NAFTA,” Sanders began.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">The senator then said he also helped lead a “fight” against permanent normal trade relations with China, while Biden, as a senator, “voted for it.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">And, Sanders added, “I strongly opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership; he supported it.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">TPP was a high priority for the Obama administration.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">Sanders on Monday also released a statement calling on President Trump and all presidential candidates to “publicly support a new trade policy agenda that protects domestic jobs and guarantees living wages for American workers.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">As part of that, Sanders wants all candidates to support “A commitment to renegotiate all of our unfair trade deals to prevent the outsourcing of American jobs and raise wages.” He wants a pledge to “avoid appointing [a] trade representative from Wall Street.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">Sanders also said he was “committed to label China a currency manipulator and prevent it from dumping artificially cheap products into the U.S. when he is in the White House.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">President Trump, as a candidate, pledged to label China a currency manipulator but to date his Treasury Department has not done so. The latest report from Treasury on the currency practices of other countries is overdue.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">On his campaign website, Sanders lays out <a href="https://berniesanders.com/issues/fight-for-fair-trade-and-workers/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;" class="">a slew of trade priorities</span></a>:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt 22.5pt; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;" class="">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> </span></span><i class=""><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;" class="">Eliminate the incentives baked into our current trade and tax agreements that make it easier for multinational corporations to ship jobs overseas. Corporations should not be able to get a tax deduction for the expenses involved in moving their factories abroad and throwing American workers out on the street.</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt 22.5pt; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;" class="">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> </span></span><i class=""><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;" class="">Instead of providing federal tax breaks, contracts, grants, and loans to corporations that outsource jobs, we need to support the small businesses that are creating good jobs in America. </span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt 22.5pt; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;" class="">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> </span></span><i class=""><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;" class="">We must also expand “Buy American,” “Buy Local,” and other government policies that will increase jobs in the U.S. </span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt 22.5pt; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;" class="">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> </span></span><i class=""><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;" class="">We need to make sure that strong and binding labor, environmental, and human rights standards are written into the core text of all trade agreements.</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt 22.5pt; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;" class="">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> </span></span><i class=""><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;" class="">We must also add to the core text of every U.S. trade agreement, enforceable rules against currency cheating, which allows countries to unfairly dump their products in this country and makes our exports more expensive abroad. </span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt 22.5pt; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;" class="">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> </span></span><i class=""><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;" class="">Our trade policies must support communities of color that have been impacted the worst by our unfair trade deals.</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt 22.5pt; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;" class="">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> </span></span><i class=""><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;" class="">Undo the harm that trade agreements have done to family farmers.</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt 22.5pt; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: -0.25in; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;" class="">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""> </span></span><i class=""><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;" class="">We must eliminate rules in our trade deals that increase the cost of medicines.</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" class=""> ====</span></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt; background-color: white;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.5pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Biden defends his record, says he's a 'fair trader</span></b><font color="#333333" face="Georgia, serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;" class=""><b class="">’</b></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">5/1/2019</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">Former Vice President Joe Biden called himself a “fair trader” in Iowa on Wednesday in response to questions about his record on trade raised by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a top competitor for the Democratic presidential nomination.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">Sanders on Monday <a href="https://insidetrade.com/node/166359" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;" class="">knocked Biden</span></a> for his votes, as a Delaware senator, in favor of NAFTA and of permanent normal trade relations with China, as well as his support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">Biden, campaigning in the state that will hold the first caucus in the Democratic primary race, didn't address Sanders' claims directly but said he was proud of his record, according to <a href="https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2019/04/30/joe-biden-bernie-sanders-trade-nafta-china-fair-trade-free-trade-union-trump-election-2020-caucus-ia/3625096002/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;" class="">a report</span></a> in the <i class=""><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;" class="">Des Moines Register</span></i>.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">“I'm going to have plenty of time to respond to that,” Biden said, according to the paper. “I'm not going to get into debates with my colleagues here. We'll have plenty of time on the stage.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">When asked if he considered himself a free trader, Biden used the term “fair trader.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">“That’s why I’ve been arguing for a long time that we should treat other countries the way in which they treat us which is, particularly as it relates to China: If they want to trade here they’re going to be under the same rules,” he said, according to the<i class=""><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;" class=""> Register.</span></i></span></p></body></html>