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The TTIP: serious consequences for public health
14-Apr-2016 Nueva Tribuna
Private arbitral tribunals will be able to impose multi-million fines on States whose parliaments have dared to legislate without taking into account corporate expectations.
Whose healthy ASEAN Community?
17-Mar-2016 The Jakarta Post
The liberalization of health care under the ASEAN Economic Community is clearly biased toward curative services as being more profitable than health promotion.
US industry body says India agreed to not issue ’compulsory’ drug licences
9-Mar-2016 Reuters
India has given private assurances that it will not grant licences allowing local firms to override patents and make cheap copies of drugs by big Western drugmakers.
Medicines Without Frontiers: the TPP – a barrier to access to life saving generic medicines
10-Feb-2016 La Nación
"The battle to prevent this trade agreement from being implemented is far from over", asserts the humanitarian organization, joining the rejection that the treaty Chile signed in New Zealand arouses.
Anger as government blocks TTIP legal documents relating to health service
27-Jan-2016 The Guardian
Business secretary refuses to disclose advice that could show how private health firms might sue government under US-Europe trade deal.
Australia tobacco clash reverberates in EU trade talks
4-Jan-2016 Politico
The inclusion of an ISDS in an EU agreement could raise the likelihood of such cases being brought against all kinds of public interest and health protecting policies in the future.
The dismissal of a case against plain cigarette packaging is good news for taxpayers
21-Dec-2015 The Age
I only wish to caution that we should be wary of anyone who suggests that the decision demonstrates that ISDS isn’t problematic.
Why is Philip Morris International Inc. suing these countries?
24-Nov-2015 Fool
Philip Morris is dragging countries with tight tobacco regulations into costly legal battles.
Pacific trade deal could limit affordable drugs: world health chief
13-Nov-2015 Reuters
A massive trade pact between 12 Pacific rim countries could limit the availability of affordable medicines, the head of the World Health Organization said
TPPA vs tobacco control - the devil is in the details
13-Nov-2015 Malaysia Kini
Now that the whole text of the TPPA has been released, it appears the TPPA provides many avenues for the tobacco industry to thwart and frustrate government efforts to enact stronger measures.
TPP caves to the tobacco industry, threatens public health
6-Nov-2015 CPATH
The vacuous “tobacco control” provision in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) virtually capitulates to the demands of multinational tobacco corporations, jeopardizing nations’ health and economic welfare.
TPP on registration of drugs, bans requirements to disclose or consider certain financial or pricing data
6-Nov-2015 KEI
There is a paucity of information on drug prices, revenues and other relative information on the economics of the pharmaceutical market.
The problem with tying health care to trade
20-Oct-2015 Five Thirty Eight
Writing pharmaceutical regulations into international trade deals can have costly consequences.
Drugs row threatens health sector budget
14-Oct-2015 Daily Nation
Ahead of a meeting between Indian Prime Minister Modi and German Chancellor Merkel this week, European manufacturers had already protested India’s patents policy, arguing that it doesn’t protect sensitive technology.
Public services under attack through TTIP and CETA
12-Oct-2015 CEO
EU trade deals with Canada and the US could endanger citizens’ rights to basic services like water and health, as negotiators are doing the work of some of the EU’s most powerful corporate lobby groups in pushing an aggressive market opening agenda in the public sector.
Preliminary comments on the completed Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) intellectual property chapter
10-Oct-2015 AFTINET
The TPP’s intellectual property chapter represents nothing less than a disaster for global health. Many harmful provisions still remain in the final chapter, bearing out the concerns of public health advocates.
Doctors without borders blasts TPP’s impact on life-saving drugs
9-Oct-2015 AJ+
The TPP could give pharmaceutical corporations more power to control medicine markets and “impose higher prices for longer.”
No to FTAs!
8-Oct-2015 Ibon
TPP, like other Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), is fashioned by industrial countries and their transnational corporations to further intensify the concentration of resources, wealth, and power into their hands leaving developing countries.
TPP deal includes tobacco carveout, teeing up fight with congress
7-Oct-2015 Global Trade Online
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) countries have agreed on language that will allow members to exclude tobacco control measures from the scope of investor-state dispute settlement.
US pushes anti-tobacco compromise in Pacific trade deal
2-Oct-2015 The Edge Markets
Governments will be allowed to block tobacco companies from suing over anti-smoking measures under a US proposal being considered by Pacific trading partners as part of Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.