Who is the Real Mike Pence on Trade?

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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With Donald Trump making significant moves on U.S. trade, in particular, ending American participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, it is interesting to look back in time and see what his Vice President, Mike Pence, had to say about international trade before he jumped aboard the “Trump Train”. 

Here’s a record of Mike Pence’s votes on key trade and trade-related issues while he was in Congress:

He voted positively on trade promotion deals with Columbia, Panama, South Korea, Peru, Oman, Chile, Singapore and voted against the 109th Congress House Joint Resolution 27 which would have seen the United States withdraw from the agreement that established the World Trade Organization which, interestingly, was sponsored by Bernard Sanders (VT-I).  He also voted against House Joint Resolution 50 back in the 207th Congress; this bill would have denied an extension of China’s normal trade relations with the United States as shown here:

This, in particular, is interesting given his boss’s antipathy toward trade with China.

In addition, he voted in favour of House Resolution 3009 aka the Andean Trade Preference Act Extension back in 2002 which granted duty free status to products from Bolivia, Columbia, Ecuador and Peru among other things.

Here is a tweet from Governor Mike Pence back in September 2014 when he recommended the swift adoption of the TransPacific Partnership, the deal that the President just killed:

Is it possible that what was good for Indiana was not good for America?

Given his inconsistencies on trade from his time in the House of Representatives and as the Governor of Indiana to what his boss is now doing, it certainly appears that Mike Pence was willing to sell his soul to get access to the core of Washington, particularly given that Donald Trump has never hidden his trade agenda.

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