Trans-pacific partnership, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

[AndreStmaur]

@nimelennar

From what I understand, neither of the agreements were particularly centered towards increasing free trade; most of the countries involved already had free trade agreements already in place. The treaties were labeled as “free trade” agreements, but were really aimed towards reducing consumer protections and the ability of governments to regulate multinational companies, in order to boost corporate profits further. So “changing their mind on the subject of free trade” might be a bit inaccurate.

That is even more confusing. Now you are telling me they “changed their minds on the subject of boosting corporate profits”. Why would they do that?