By Stewart Truelsen
Special to Poultry Times
WASHINGTON — In this wild and wooly election year international trade agreements, especially the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership, have come under political fire. It's hardly the first time.
In 1987, House members, angry over American job losses and the rising trade deficit, narrowly passed the Gephardt amendment to a trade bill. The amendment would have required tough sanctions against leading trading partners that maintained a large trade surplus with the U.S., notably Japan.
Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) was campaigning to be his party's nominee for president in 1988. . .
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