[fullwidth background_color=”” background_image=”” background_parallax=”none” enable_mobile=”no” parallax_speed=”0.3″ background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” video_url=”” video_aspect_ratio=”16:9″ video_webm=”” video_mp4=”” video_ogv=”” video_preview_image=”” overlay_color=”” overlay_opacity=”0.5″ video_mute=”yes” video_loop=”yes” fade=”no” border_size=”0px” border_color=”” border_style=”” padding_top=”20″ padding_bottom=”20″ padding_left=”0″ padding_right=”0″ hundred_percent=”no” equal_height_columns=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” menu_anchor=”” class=”” id=””][title size=”1″ content_align=”left” style_type=”underline solid” sep_color=”#000000″ margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” class=”” id=””]Key congressional Republicans are raising concerns about the just-completed Pacific Rim trade pact[/title][fusion_text]Tuesday, October 6th 2015
Key congressional Republicans are raising concerns about the just-completed Pacific Rim trade pact, in part because the Obama administration didn’t insist on protecting U.S. tobacco products from regulations in other countries. Details of the final agreement, announced Monday morning in Atlanta, were not released. Farm groups have been kept up to date by negotiators but were holding off taking positions on the agreement until the final details are available. Also raising concerns about the deal was House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway, who complained last week to the administration about its stance on tobacco and pressed negotiators to protect dairy and sugar producers as well. Because the text of the accord must be public for at least 90 before it can even be signed, Congress won’t debate the deal until 2016 as the presidential primaries and caucuses are taking place.
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