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TOE Alert: Senate Reaches Deal on TPA vote; Question is When
posted by Richard Katz on May 13, 2015
Found in Japan, US, categorized in International Trade and Investment
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Although Hatch succeeded in getting a deal that means the Senate will, sooner or later, pass TPA, he is not a happy man. “I’m about ready to kill somebody,” he said, according to Politico.com.
Abstract
Senate Republicans and Democrats reached a deal this afternoon to get a vote to begin debate on Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), following yesterday’s failure.
About Richard Katz
Richard Katz is Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics In International Affairs, the New York correspondent for Weekly Toyo Keizai, a leading Japanese business magazine, and formerly the editor of The Oriental Economist Report, a monthly newsletter on Japan.
Mr. Katz has taught about Japan’s economy as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the New York University Stern School of Business, and as a Visiting Lecturer in Economics at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook.
Mr. Katz is the author of two books on Japan's economic travails and has just finished a third book on reviving entrepreeurship in Japan.
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