Ms. Wallach is the Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, and today's featured quote is from her article for The World Post "TPP Would Gut Buy American: Happy July 4th!"  

In the body of the piece, Ms. Wallach highlights the portion of Federal taxes paid by citizens of selected states that goes to procurement projects.  Her first example is Massachusetts.  She writes:

That's only one state, of course.  The larger argument is that the TPP, specifically the TPP Ms. Wallach fears is being negotiated, will result in much of that money paying for foreign rather than U.S. production.  One part of the TPP scenario Ms. Wallach wants to avoid is this, again her words:

As for the opportunities a TPP procurement chapter might open up for U.S. firms, Ms. Wallach argues that the deal could hardly be worth it because of the disparity in the size of the relevant procurement markets.  "The U.S. federal procurement market," she writes, "is more than ten times larger than ALL of the new prospective TPP procurement markets combined."

Of course we have questions about some of the assertions in Ms. Wallach's article.  We will hold those until next week, however, and the TPP debate between Lori Wallach and Derek Scissors of the American Enterprise Institute.

Here we will simply make the confession that, alas, our own knowledge of the TPP negotiations on procurement is limited to what we read in USTR's summary of the issues.  Here is what the negotiators have told us about their procurement objectives: