# Professor Ralph Gomory outlines the potential negative impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership

1 Faculty News September 18, 2016 ![IndustryWeek logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/industryweek192x144.jpg?itok=a3ca9uFq)>

Excerpt from [IndustryWeek](http://www.industryweek.com/trade/experts-urge-next-president-dump-us-trade-policy-demand-tougher-enforcement) -- "'Until we learn how to assess the real effects of these trade deals, remembering that they take place in a mercantilist world…we should have no more of them,' he urged. [Gomory](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/ralph-gomory) joined several other TPP critics in warning against the agreement’s dispute settlement provisions that give companies the power to sue governments if the companies believe the governments have taken 'any step that hurts their profits.'"

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