The USTR‘s position on trade agreements is incredibly antiquated. It acts as if it‘s an extension of „American business“ and seems to believe that the only ones fighting against its various trade agreements, like the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Pact (TTIP) are these meddling „public interest“ groups, which don‘t understand the importance of big business. It‘s why the USTR recently created a special „public interest“ committee to pretend that it was listening to criticism while shunting them off to their own little corner to be ignored.