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50 Kyle Pomerleau and Emily Potosky, Fiscal Fact No. 525:
Corporate Income Tax Rates around the World, 2016, Tax
Foundation, August 18, 2016, http://taxfoundation.org/
sites/taxfoundation.org/files/docs/TaxFoundation-FF525.
pdf. Chad’s corporate tax rate was formerly the second
highest in the world but was recently reduced, so it is
now exceeded by the United States as well as the United
ArabEmirates.
51 MAPI Foundation, National Association of Manufacturers,
The United States Needs a More Competitive Corporate
Tax Structure, 2015, page 2, http://www.nam.org/Data-
and-Reports/Reports/MAPI---Tax-Competitiveness.pdf.
52 Congressman Charles Boustany, “Boustany and Neal
Release Innovation Box Discussion Draft,” Press Release,
July 29, 2015, https://boustany.house.gov/114th-congress/
boustany-neal-release-innovation-box-discussion-draft/.
53 Douglas Irwin, “The Truth About Trade: What Critics Get
Wrong About the Global Economy”, Foreign Affairs,
Volume 95 No. 4, July-August 2016, https://www.
foreignaffairs.com/articles/2016-06-13/truth-about-trade.
54 Robert D. Atkinson, Information Technology
& Innovation Foundation, “It’s time for tough
talk on trade,” The Christian Science Monitor,
April 14, 2016, http://www.csmonitor.com/
Technology/Breakthroughs-Voices/2016/0414/
It-s-time-for-tough-talk-on-trade.
55 William A. Galston, “Making Trade Work for
Working Americans,” Wall Street Journal,
October 25, 2016, http://www.wsj.com/articles/
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56 Bay Area Council Economic Institute, Reinventing
Manufacturing: How the Transformation of Manufacturing
is Creating New Opportunity for California, April
2016, http://www.bayareaeconomy.org/files/pdf/
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57 United States International Trade Commission, The Trans-
Pacific Partnership Agreement: Likely Impact on the U.S.
Economy and on Specific Industry Sectors, Publication
4607, May 2016, page 22, https://www.usitc.gov/
publications/332/pub4607.pdf.
58 Ibid., pages 81 and 585.
59 Peter A. Petri and Michael G. Plummer, “The Economic
Effects of the TPP: New Estimates,” Assessing the Trans-
Pacific Partnership, Volume 1: Market Access and Sectoral
Issues, Peterson Institute for International Economics,
February 2016, page 19, https://piie.com/system/files/
documents/piieb16-1.pdf.
60 Data Source: 2007 Economic Census, US Census Bureau.
Analysis: Peterson Institute for International Economics.
61 Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis, US Department of
Commerce, (Balance of Payments Basis). Analysis: Office of
the United States Trade Representative.
62 United States International Trade Commission, The Trans-
Pacific Partnership Agreement: Likely Impact on the U.S.
Economy and on Specific Industry Sectors, Publication
4607, May 2016, page 34, https://www.usitc.gov/
publications/332/pub4607.pdf.
63 Gary Clyde Hufbauer, “Liberalization of Services Trade,”
Assessing the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Volume 1:
Market Access and Sectoral Issues, Peterson Institute for
International Economics, February 2016, page 81, https://
piie.com/system/files/documents/piieb16-1.pdf.
64 Ibid., pages 22 and 23.
65 World Bank, “Potential Macroeconomic Implications of
the Trans-Pacific Partnership,” Global Economic Prospects,
January 2016, pages 226–227, https://www.worldbank.
org/content/dam/Worldbank/GEP/GEP2016a/Global-
Economic-Prospects-January-2016-Implications-Trans-
Pacific-Partnership-Agreement.pdf
66 Peter A. Petri and Michael G. Plummer, “The Economic
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Pacific Partnership, Volume 1: Market Access and Sectoral
Issues, Peterson Institute for International Economics,
February 2016, page 6, https://piie.com/system/files/
documents/piieb16-1.pdf. The Peterson Institute
assessment used a global computable general equilibrium
(CGE) model with a 2015–2030 time period.
67 Matthew Goodman, “Yes, TPP is About Who Writes the
Rules”, Center for Strategic and International Studies,
August 2016, https://csis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/
s3fs-public/publication/160830_GEM_V5_I8.pdf. Data
Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis, US Department
ofCommerce.
68 Peter A. Petri and Michael G. Plummer, “The Economic
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Pacific Partnership, Volume 1: Market Access and Sectoral
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February 2016, pages 20–21, https://piie.com/system/files/
documents/piieb16-1.pdf.
69 Office of the United States Trade Representative,
“TPP—Upgrading and Improving Investor-State Dispute
Settlement,” Fact Sheet, https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/
TPP-Upgrading-and-Improving-Investor-State-Dispute-
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70 Office of the United States Trade Representative, “FACT
SHEET: Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS),”
https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/fact-
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accessed November 11, 2016.
71 Gary Clyde Hufbauer, “Investor-State Dispute Settlement,”
Assessing the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Volume 1:
Market Access and Sectoral Issues, Peterson Institute for
International Economics, February 2016, page 113, https://
piie.com/system/files/documents/piieb16-1.pdf.