Well, that&#x27;s the least charitable way to frame it. A more accurate way to frame it:<p>* The United States Congress does not really get line-item veto on giant international trade agreements that affect dozens of countries, all of whom also must ratify the treaty.<p>* Trade promotion authority is simply the authorization for the administration to negotiate the treaty.<p>* By the time TPP is ratified by Congress at the end of 2016, it will have been public for over a year, and we&#x27;ll have change-bars for the &quot;legal scrub&quot; stuff Techdirt is so worried about.<p>My real objection to US concern over TPP is that TPP has minimal impact on US domestic law. If you&#x27;re a New Zealander, or, worse, Vietnamese, I totally understand how the TPP is problematic. The idea that a treaty that mostly serves to normalize global trade rules around the ones already in place in the US has been &quot;rammed through in the USA&quot; seems pretty arrogant to me.