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TTIP may back China into a corner
Global Times
June 19, 2013
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Fact Sheet: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP)
White House
June 19, 2013
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In China, they built it ... and no one came
Reuters
June 19, 2013
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Yuan Gains Most in 3 Weeks as Central Bank Sets Record Fixing
Bloomberg
June 18, 2013
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U.S. groups form alliance to push for Indian trade reforms
Reuters
June 18, 2013
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"Free Trade" Was Never Really About Trade
Huffington Post
June 18, 2013
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Beijing's Trade Figures May be Phony but U.S. Data Show no China Export Crackup
by Alan Tonelson, Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Does China's claim that its export figures have been artificially inflated mean that trade pressures on America will ease? Not according to the U.S. government's data.
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New Manufacturing Job Losses Reveal Folly of Obama's Feel-Good China Summit
by Alan Tonelson, Friday, June 07, 2013
A Still-Bubbly Economy & a Near Fatal Blow to Export Doubling
by Alan Tonelson, Thursday, May 30, 2013
No Way to Shrink the Trade Deficit
by Alan Tonelson, Thursday, May 02, 2013
Return of The Bubble Economy?
by Alan Tonelson, Friday, April 26, 2013
Only the Word "Guilty" is Missing
by Alan Tonelson, Friday, April 19, 2013
Up to the Minute Commentary:
Obama's Manufacturing Data Shutdown

Recent Presidential decisions have made reliable information about American manufacturing's health harder to find, and dubious claims about its renaissance even easier to make.

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Stagnation, not Renaissance, Mode for Domestic Manufacturing

The Federal Reserve's latest industrial production figures deliver yet another sobering message to President Obama and other manufacturing cheerleaders about the sector's supposed rebirth.

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Another China Jobs Myth Bites the Dust
by Alan Tonelson, 6/18/2013
Where Currency Manipulation Pays
by Alan Tonelson, 5/28/2013
Pushing on a Global String
by Alan Tonelson, 5/20/2013
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Larry Summers Finally Wakes up on China and Trade
by Alan Tonelson, 6/10/2013
The Gang That Can't Count Straight on Trade
by Alan Tonelson, 5/23/2013
For Obama, Less is the New More in Korea Trade
by Alan Tonelson, 5/9/2013
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