{"id":6269,"date":"2016-11-11T21:46:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T02:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/11\/15\/a-vote-for-the-trans-pacific-partnership\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:29:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:29:55","slug":"a-vote-for-the-trans-pacific-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/a-vote-for-the-trans-pacific-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"A Vote for the Trans Pacific Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24271\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24271\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24271 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/nelsen3.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Brent Nelsen\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/169;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-24271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Dr. Brent Nelsen<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>In an op-ed published in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/contributors\/2016\/11\/11\/why-international-trade-good-us-economyand-upstate\/92510282\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/em><\/strong> before Tuesday\u2019s election, Furman professors Brent Nelsen (Political Science) and Tom Smythe (Business and Accounting) argued that international trade is good for the U.S. economy and the Upstate. And that is true even if both presidential candidates opposed President Obama\u2019s signature trade agreement, the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP).<\/p>\n<p>The professors wrote: \u201cThe TPP will benefit the Upstate directly; it will also bring broader benefits to the national economy. If TPP passes, tariffs on manufactured goods and agricultural products in other\u00a0countries will be eliminated. Thus, the cost of U.S. products will decrease for customers in Pacific Rim countries, raising demand for American (including Upstate) goods. More broadly, lower tariffs on foreign goods will likely lead to a drop in consumer prices for all Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22920\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22920\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22920 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/106473299851630.NaEQoe43l1Zqjxau3wrn_height640.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Smythe\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/169;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Tom Smythe<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an op-ed published in The Greenville News before Tuesday\u2019s election, Furman professors Brent Nelsen (Political Science) and Tom Smythe (Business and Accounting) argued that international trade is good for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":6270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,20,6,69,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-business-and-accounting","category-in-the-news","category-on-the-record","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}