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…
[Reposted from michealgeist.ca, Link (CC-BY)] The New Zealand government posted the official Trans Pacific Partnership text today after years secret negotiations and occasional leaks of the text. It is an enormous deal with dozens of side letters between countries –…
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…