US call-centre jobs may be exported under TPP
Pact allows firms to receive same treatment as American businesses when competing for US agency contracts
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AMERICAN call-centre jobs may be one casualty of a pending Pacific trade deal that would allow US federal contract work to be shifted to Malaysia, Vietnam and Brunei.
Opponents of the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership are seizing on the provision as an example of how the pact may help US companies with overseas operations to cut costs when vying for their own government's work, and hurt US workers in the process.
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