We don’t know details of pact

I’m wondering about the point of Tuesday’s front page article on “TPP Opportunities.”

The first part (on Page A1) focuses on a local company and how the new Trans-Pacific Partnership will improve its business by lowering trade barriers. Yet, later the article states that “The TPP was negotiated behind closed doors, and the text has not been made public. So, no one knows exactly what the agreement says.”

Much of the “news” about the TPP over the past few years has been about who’s for it, who’s against it, how great it will be, how devastating it will be. I have read many articles and opinion pieces about this agreement, most of them negative and some of them downright scary. But the quote from your article sums it up: “No one knows what it says.”

I’m hoping as the text becomes available that your paper will help educate us all about what’s really in this “trade deal.” Then we can see for ourselves whether it is in our best interest or not.

Martha Clatterbaugh

Bothell