USTR, Public Citizen At Odds On Methodology For Assessing TPP Tariff Cuts

In the fight over the purported benefits of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and prominent TPP critic Public Citizen are blasting as inaccurate each other's methodology for calculating how many U.S. exports would see foreign tariffs eliminated under the deal and whether those cuts are meaningful. Although both methodologies seek to determine the number of tariffs that will be eliminated by the five TPP countries with which the U.S. does not have a free trade...