TPP The international trade law and accountant full employment act.

You don’t have to hear much about the TPP to realize it will be a nightmare.

A five thousand page document with each country having to produce untold number of regulations to assure compliance. The few tidbits I have seen indicate there are labor and environmental standards that must be met. There are regs dealing with sourcing from non-treaty countries. If you work for a company that has to deal with just figuring if it can print Made In USA on the box, you know the paper work will be a nightmare. Is thirty thousand pages of regs just for the US guessing too high?

What is ‘free’ about five thousand pages of regs let alone thirty thousand? Nothing.

But it takes a lot of pages to insure control. Read the rest of this entry »