Ohio鈥檚 Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown plans to meet with President Trump鈥檚 tomorrow to talk about the starting points for the U.S. renegotiation of the .
One of Brown鈥檚 chief concerns is an obscure part of trade law that allows multinational corporations to sue countries over regulations such as labor standards -- in special overseas tribunals.
鈥淚 want to see them be more aggressive on the . It still gives too much negotiating power to the largest corporations who have been notorious for outsourcing jobs and depressing wages. I want to get to the bottom of why they haven鈥檛 addressed that as aggressively as I would have liked.
Brown has said he also wants to see a reworked trade deal raise labor and environmental standards to U.S. levels.
