By Katie Hettinga
In recent weeks, the press has been full of reports about trade announcements with Argentina, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Korea, Switzerland, and more. Some of these are not trade agreements, but frameworks for potential future deals. (For instance, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer will travel to Brussels next week in an attempt to secure terms of an actual deal after a framework announcement with the EU in July). A common thread among actual deals and possible future frameworks is the United States agreeing to cut tariffs in exchange for other countries granting Big Tech and Big Pharma special new powers and agreeing to roll back domestic data privacy, antimonopoly, and other public interest policies.
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Originally published in The Economic Populist — a project of the American Economic Liberties Project.