The problems people are identifying with TPP are very real, including this problem with being required to accept imported food that does not meet US safety standards. So, while you seem to be trying a dog whistle move there, suggesting that there must be nothing wrong with TPP because critics are making stuff up, in fact there is a library of analysis and documentation of serious problems - based on leaked texts, warning issues by negotiators, and the relevant terms of past FTA that we have been informed serve as the model fir various of the TPP’s 29 chapters. congressional. If you would like to actually challenge any of that analysis, I would be interested - but given how many people know how bad TPP is, trying to change the topic is not gonna work at this point…
Just for instance, the report to which I linked is a decade old. I linked to it to explain the notion of equivalence - a 2003 report does not reflect the fill list of countries that have been deemed to have equivalent food systems now, but rather how systematically that vague standard could facilitate imports that do not meet US safety standards.
Whatever your political agenda is, on the merits you are wrong. In fact, China has recently obtained an equivalent designation. Yes, the receiving country has to make an equivalence determination, but the sending country can challenge that decision. China challenged the U.S. decision NOT to allow its imports in as equivalent at the WTO - and the U.S. lost the case. To avoid trade sanctions via the WTO, the Obama administration then issued a new equivalence determination and pounded on Congress to fund its implementation. And BTW, being concerned about imports of food from a country that has regular, deadly food safety scandals is not anti-China fear mongering.
