Latest Fact-Checks In Trade

Clear
Ed Schultz
Ed Schultz
stated on April 17, 2015 a broadcast of MSNBC's "The Ed Show"
"America has lost over 50,000 manufacturing factories on other trade deals."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • April 23, 2015
Betty Sutton
Betty Sutton
stated on October 10, 2012 a debate
Says Jim Renacci has "consistently voted" for loopholes that "encourage outsourcing of our jobs."
Half-True
By Henry J. Gomez • November 2, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on September 13, 2012 in a TV ad
 "Seven times Obama could have stopped China's cheating. Seven times, he refused."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • September 19, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 13, 2012 a speech at Port of Tampa
"We've brought trade cases against China at nearly twice the rate as the last administration."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • April 18, 2012
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on October 12, 2011 a news conference
"We buy 35 percent of all Chinese exports."
Half-True
By Tom Feran • October 20, 2011
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on September 7, 2011 a news conference
"In the month of July alone, EU exports to South Korea increased by over 36 percent. A lot of that is our market share. Those are our farmers and our service providers who are suffering."
Half-True
By Sabrina Eaton • September 21, 2011
SEIU
SEIU
stated on September 7, 2011 a political mailing
"Republicans fought to protect tax loopholes for corporations that send our jobs overseas."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 7, 2011
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on July 19, 2011 a television interview
"We rank below Ethiopia, I'm told, in terms of our exports per capita, well below any of the other developed countries we trade with, and well below China and (South) Korea."
Half-True
By Tom Feran • August 25, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 11, 2011 a press conference
"For the first time in more than a decade, imports accounted for less than half of (the oil) we consumed."
Half-True
March 15, 2011
Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan
stated on January 20, 2011 a speech to the Heritage Foundation
"Our debt to GDP ratios, our deficit to GDP ratios are quickly approaching the countries we have been reading about for the last year and a half. We are not far behind Ireland, Greece, Portugal and Spain and all these countries we have been reading about."
Half-True
By Sabrina Eaton • February 16, 2011
John Boccieri
John Boccieri
stated on October 18, 2010 a debate
"Mr. Renacci was registered as a foreign trade lobbyist in the United States government."
Half-True
By Stephen Koff • November 1, 2010
Russ Feingold
Russ Feingold
stated on September 30, 2010 campaign TV and radio ads
"According to independent analysis, unfair trade deals have resulted in the loss of over 64,000 jobs in Wisconsin ... But Ron Johnson favors those deals."
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • October 12, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 6, 2010 a speech on Labor Day
John Boehner wants to reopen a tax loophole "that actually rewarded corporations for shipping jobs and profits overseas."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 13, 2010
Lee Fisher
Lee Fisher
stated on September 7, 2010 a campaign commercial
"On (Rob Portman's) watch as Bush's trade czar, our deficit with China exploded" and "as Bush's budget chief, Portman oversaw a spending spree that doubled the deficit."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 9, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on May 3, 2010 a Web video
"Bill White used D.C. connections from his job in the Clinton administration to form a company that did business in the Middle East and defaulted on a $60 million loan."
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • May 16, 2010
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on March 4, 2010 a press release
"Crist stays in $2,000 a night luxury hotel suites where he racks up $1,300 in mini-bar charges, and doesn't pay for a dime of it himself."
Half-True
By Aaron Sharockman • March 12, 2010
Previous