After five years of secret negotiations directed and controlled by pharmaceutical lobbyists and drug-company-dominated trade advisory groups, the official text of the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiated by the Obama administration has been released. The text confirms critics’ worst fears –…
[Foundation for a Free Internet Infrastructure, Link, (CC-BY)] New Zealand has published the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Ongoing analysis, subject to updates: ISDS Investor-to-state dispute settlement (ISDS) places investment tribunals above states, above democracies. This places the development…
Today’s release of the TPP agreement confirms that its Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) chapter would expand the rights of private companies to challenge limitations and exceptions to copyrights, patents, and other intellectual property rights in unaccountable international arbitration forums. The…
USTR has pointed to the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) development chapter, the first such chapter in any U.S. trade agreement, as evidence that the TPP is an advancement over previous ones. Last night’s release of the official TPP text provides…
The government of New Zealand has posted the complete text of the Trans Pacific Partnership, along with the acknowledgement that “the text will continue to undergo legal review and will be translated into French and Spanish language versions prior to…
[Pedro Roffe, Xavier Seuba, Mariano Genovesi, ICTSD, Link] El 5 de octubre de 2015 se oficializó el cierre exitoso de las negociaciones sobre el Acuerdo de Asociación Transpacífico (TPP, por sus siglas en inglés) iniciadas en el 2010[1] y que…
[Reilly Yeo, Open Media, Link (CC-BY-NC-SA)] Who should make the policies that will determine the future of the Internet? A select list of corporate lobbyists and unelected government officials, meeting without public oversight or involvement? Or — Internet users and…
[EFF Deeplinks, Link (CC-BY)] Open access isn’t explicitly covered in any of the secretive trade negotiations that are currently underway, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), and the Trade In Services Agreement (TISA). But…
Trans Pacific Partnership governments are trying to convince stakeholders that the controversial Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism in the agreement is an improvement over those found in previous trade agreements. ISDS rules in NAFTA have allowed Eli Lilly to sue…
Cross posted form ARL Policy Notes, Link (CC-BY) On October 5, 2015, the twelve trade ministers of the TPP negotiating parties (Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam and the United States) announced that they…
This morning, trade ministers from the twelve countries negotiating the Trans Pacific Partnership jointly announced that “we have successfully concluded the Trans-Pacific Partnership.” The U.S. Trade Representative has also released a summary of the agreement that has been reached. Negotiations…
USTR has reportedly tabled a new provision for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) that would carve out tobacco regulation from the effect of its investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) chapter, which allows private companies to challenge domestic regulations in secretive and…