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When all else fails, trade critics throw lots of mud

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When all else fails, trade critics throw lots of mud

An active and growing movement has been seeking to sabotage new trade agreements — and now it has set its sights on Trade Promotion Authority. But the entire movement is based on a myth.

Since the mid-1990s, we have been warned that legal provisions called investor-state dispute settlement would overturn U.S. laws and rules in secret tribunals.

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