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Philippines studying prospects of joining TPP
12-Nov-2015 ABS-CBN
The Philippines is scrutinizing the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), consulting stakeholders and assessing the TPP’s economic impact on the country.
TPP- the cooperation and capacity building chapter
12-Nov-2015 Imipono
Broadly focusing on the militarization of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, “the Cooperation and Capacity Building” chapter should provide context to just how threatening this Pacific partnership is to the region.
As US promotes TPP as a way to improve labor standards, Guatemala shows failed promises of previous trade deals
12-Nov-2015 International Business Times
When Guatemala joined CAFTA in 2006, proponents of the deal said it would improve conditions for workers. Seven years later, Guatemala was named the most dangerous country for trade unionists. Supporters of the TPP are making many of the same promises.
China to push alternative trade pact at Apec
12-Nov-2015 Dawn
China will seek to push its own vision of an Asia-Pacific trade pact at a regional summit next week, senior officials said, after this month’s release of a rival US-led deal that pointedly excludes the Asian giant.
LDP considering national ’farming MBA’ program as part of TPP policy
12-Nov-2015 The Mainichi
The government may support "MBA in agriculture" programs across Japan as part of domestic agricultural policies to prepare for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade pact.
U.S. auto safeguard in TPP identical to KORUS, but different in practice
11-Nov-2015 World Trade Online
The special motor vehicle safeguard that the United States has secured in its bilateral auto deal with Japan under the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is identical to the one included in the U.S.-Korea free trade agreement, but will have a different lifespan
TPP’s clauses that let Australia be sued are weapons of legal destruction, says lawyer
11-Nov-2015 The Guardian
Leading arbitration lawyer says there are critical loopholes in the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s investment chapter that leave Australia wide open
TPP set to worsen food insecurity in Mexico
10-Nov-2015 Tele Sur
The TPP’s free trade agenda, described by some as a NAFTA on steroids, would worsen economic, food security, and agricultural challenges in Mexico.
TPP is about many things, but free trade? Not so much
10-Nov-2015 The Globe and Mail
Let’s be clear about the just-released, negotiated-in-secret Trans-Pacific Partnership deal: it is definitely not a “free-trade” agreement. It’s much more than that.
Trans-Pacific Partnership: read the side letters not just the headlines
9-Nov-2015 AFR
Australia has entered a wide range of bilateral agreements with countries around the Pacific in a web of special deals which underline the complexity of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
Japan, U.S. agree to protect alcoholic drinks linked to special areas by banning knock-offs
9-Nov-2015 The Asahi Shimbun
Japan and the United States have struck a deal to ban alcoholic beverages that are not produced in the geographical area included in its brand name under the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade pact.
How the Trans-Pacific Partnership will—and won’t—protect wildlife
9-Nov-2015 National Geographic
New 12-country trade deal has protections for wildlife built in, but it’s unclear if they’ll be enforced.
The highlights of the Trans-Pacific Partnership e-commerce chapter
9-Nov-2015 Public Citizen
The E-commerce chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) sets rules that, if ratified, will shape the development of the digital economy for years to come.
Critic: TPP deal has ‘exclusions up the wazoo’
9-Nov-2015 Politico
The exceptions, laid out in multiple annexes and embedded in various chapters of the 1,000-page-plus Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, range from obscure provisions to controversial measures
Reach of TPP’s SOE disciplines limited by definition, scope, exceptions
7-Nov-2015 World Trade Online
The text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement reveals that the parties have agreed on groundbreaking new rules aimed at preventing state-owned enterprises (SOEs) from harming privately owned firms
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.
Secret TPP text unveiled: it’s worse than we thought
6-Nov-2015 Public Citizen
Long-awaited text reveals gaps between Administration claims and actual TPP terms on key public concerns
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.
Release of the full TPP text after five years of secrecy confirms threats to users’ rights
6-Nov-2015 Electronic Frontier Foundation
Some of the more dangerous threats to the public’s rights to free expression, access to knowledge, and privacy online are contained in the copyright provisions in the Intellectual Property (IP) chapter
TPP text shows some impacts from community campaigns, but still favours corporate rights over citizens and communities
5-Nov-2015 AFTINET
Preliminary analysis of the thousands of pages of the main chapters of the TPP text show there are still devils in the detail on medicine monopolies, investor rights to sue governments and copyright monopolies.