McConnell, Farm & Business Groups Reiterate Warnings Against TPP Tobacco Carveout

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the American Farm Bureau Federation and U.S. business groups are making a last-ditch effort to warn U.S Trade Representative Michael Froman not to agree to provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal that would specifically disadvantage tobacco. The letters come amid a flurry of Congressional opposition to a tobacco carveout in TPP, which these lawmakers have characterized as exempting public health measures against smoking and tobacco from challenges under the deal's investor-state dispute settlement...