J Mintzmyer - Shipping Extraordinaire
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Transpacific Partnership
I think a lot of folks got a little bit concerned about whether or not we were sacrificing too much in terms of, youknow, tariffs and protectionism. The original strategic nexus of the transpacific partnership was to sort of contain china. Unfortunately, the messaging wasn't very good back home domestically. A lot of americans thought like, oh, this is like an asia nafta. There's a lot of misinformation going around. It was ironic that president trump was so focused on, oknow, addressing china. But on day one, he shredded, like, the most importan policy tool that we had in the tool box to address ch China.
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