By Barbara Olejnik
Poultry Times Staff
bolejnik@poultrytimes.com
GAINESVILLE, Ga. — The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would have a positive although slight effect on the U.S. economy, according to the U.S. International Trade Commission.
The USITC, in assessing the effects the TPP would have on the U.S. in its relationship with 11 Pacific Rim countries, stated that "TPP would have positive effects, albeit small as a percentage of the overall size of the U.S. economy."
The TPP trade and investment agreement would remove most tariffs, some tariff-rate quotas and many nontariff barriers between the 12. . .