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Legal experts weigh in on TPP
9-Oct-2015 Australasian Lawyer
Law firms are among the many Australian businesses likely to benefit from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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.”
TPP rule of origin is 45% for vehicles, with caveats; 35-45% for auto parts
8-Oct-2015 Global Trade Online
The final Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) contains rules of origin for the automotive sector that require 45 percent regional value content for finished vehicles under a complicated accounting method, along with a regional value content threshold between 35 and 45 percent for auto parts.
The US strategy to create a new global legal and economic system: TPP, TTIP, TISA
8-Oct-2015 TheWikiLeaksChannel
Wikileaks - The US strategy to create a new global legal and economic system
Sober reflections on the TPPA deal – and why we need to keep fighting
8-Oct-2015 The Daily Blog
Who gave the Prime Minister and Trade Minister the right to sacrifice our rights to regulate foreign investment, to decide our own copyright laws, to set up new SOEs, and whatever else they have agreed to in this secret deal and present it to us as a fait accompli?
The meat industry is licking its chops over Obama’s massive trade deal
7-Oct-2015 Mother Jones
The US meat industry scored a big victory when world leaders hammered out an agreement that would reduce trade barriers across the Pacific.
Libre-échange : des effets difficiles à mesurer sur l’emploi
7-Oct-2015 Le Monde
Les conséquences des accords multilatéraux sur le commerce mondial et l’économie sont loin de faire consensus.
Environmentalists: the trans-Pacific trade agreement is a disaster for climate change
7-Oct-2015 Think Progress
Opponents of the TPP say its a sweetheart deal for fossil fuel companies.
Japanese rice farmers upset over broad TPP agreement
7-Oct-2015 The Mainichi
Many farmers in Japan have started to feel increasingly insecure about their future as 12 Pacific Rim countries including Japan reached a broad agreement on the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade initiative.
Will Congress approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
7-Oct-2015 Washington Post
The first steps are expected to begin later this week when the White House formally sends Congress a notice of intent to sign the agreement, which kicks off a 90-day waiting period.
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.
Secret Trans - Pacific (TPP) deal lacks detail on medicines, includes corporate rights to sue governments
6-Oct-2015 AFTINET
The lack of access to details in the text means governments can put a positive spin on the deal, but the devil is in the detail.
Trade officials announce conclusion of TPP—now the real fight begins
6-Oct-2015 Electronic Frontier Fondation
The fact that close to 800 million Internet users’ rights to free expression, privacy, and access to knowledge online hinged upon the outcome of squabbles over trade rules on cars and milk is precisely why digital policy consideration do not belong in trade agreements.
Some highlights of the new 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal
5-Oct-2015 The Brandon Sun
Some highlights of the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement as described by the Canadian government Monday as it shared details of a deal to create the largest-ever regional trading bloc.
Trans-Pacific Partnership ministers’ statement
5-Oct-2015 USTR
The trade ministers of Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, United States, and Vietnam, have successfully concluded the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Trans-Pacific Partnership: ’50/50’ chance of trade deal today as negotiators lock horns over medical patent protection
4-Oct-2015 ABC
Australia — along with others such as New Zealand and Chile — has been unwilling to offer more than five years protection for the medicines, because longer terms would increase the cost of state-subsidised medical programs.
U.S., Australia agree on complicated compromise on biologic drugs
4-Oct-2015 WSJ
Countries in the trade bloc would have an alternative of either providing eight years of exclusivity to biologic drugs, or providing five years of so-called data exclusivity plus up to three more years under a regulatory framework in the TPP.
Tentative U.S.-Vietnam ’consistency plan’ links tariff benefits to labor compliance
4-Oct-2015 World Trade Online
Vietnam has tentatively agreed with the United States on a fully enforceable implementation plan to bring its labor regime into compliance with the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Don’t let TPP lock Peru into unequal trade
4-Oct-2015 La República
TPP negotiators hope to finalize the agreement in the next few days. Political leaders will boast of promoting the well-being of their people and countries. But the reality is that special interests have been given far too much influence on the negotiations.
US, Australia drug dispute is holding up settlement of the Trans Pacific trade deal
4-Oct-2015 The Australian Financial Review
A standoff between Australia and the United States on monopoly rules for pharmaceutical drugs has emerged as the ultimate impediment to clinching an historic trade deal sweeping across 12 Pacific Rim countries.