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The TPP is a back door for dumped and subsidized imports from China; it would enhance, not limit, China's influence in the region. a report from the Economic Policy Institute
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Does the TPP Work for Workers?
Report from the Canadian Certre for Policy Alternatives concludes that "the TPP simply reproduces an ineffective rights regime [from past "free" trade agreements} while further expanding a free trade model that has perpetuated labour rights violations in many countries. Read the report here. |
Foreign Investor Protections in the Trans Pacific Partnership,
a report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (June 2016) concluding "that expanding and enshrining such investor privileges carries major risks for voters and taxpayers in all TPP countries, with no compelling evidence of a corresponding benefit for the public." Read the report here. |
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A Dirty Deal, How the Trans Pacific Partnership Threatens Our Climate Report from the Sierra Club concludes that TPP would
Read the Executive Summary here Read the Full Report here. |
Trading Down: Unemployment Inequality and Other Risks of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. Report from the Global Development and Environment Institute at TUFTS University. Executive Summary: "Proponents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP), the trade and investment treaty recently agreed by the United States and eleven Pacific Rim nations, emphasize the prospective economic benefits, with economic growth increasing due to rising trade and investment. Widely cited projections suggest GDP gains for all countries after ten years, varying from less than half a percentage point in the United States to 13 percent in Vietnam."
Read the full Executive Summary here. Read the Full Report here. |
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Major Complications: The TPP and Canadian Health Care Report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives states "the overarching impacts of the proposed treaty would be to weaken our public health care system, undermine health regulation, and obstruct efforts to renew and expand public health
care in the face of new challenges. Read the report here. |
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, Corporations Before People And Democracy A report by the Haas Institute for a Fair and inclusive Society.
The TPP’s nuanced provisions will give corporations the power to evade environmental regulations, bypass national courts and override governments, and control workers’ movements throughout the TPP countries. The TPP would threaten key democratic principles in the United States and around the world. Read the Executive Summary here Read the report here. |
US-So. Korea Agreement at 3
US Exports Down, Imports from Korea Up and Job-Killing Trade Deficit With Korea Balloons 84 Percent on Third Anniversary of Korea Pact, Which Is TPP Template.
Read the report here.
Read the report here.
US-Peru FTA at 10
The Peru Trade Deal Turns Ten: The Consequences of Irresponsible Trade Past, Present, And Future, a article by Ilana Solomon, director of the Sierra Club Responsible Trade Program
Read the report here.
Read the report here.
NAFTA at 20
NAFTA at 20 - report from the AFL-CIO. Major points
- These agreement do not create quality job opportunities or increase wages.
- NAFTA contributed to growing inequality throughout North America
- Undermines the ability of governments to legislate in the public interest and threatens the democratic process
- The inclusion of labor provisions has not resulted in improved labor conditions
- NAFTA's environmental provisions failed to enhance environmental standards
- and more.
NAFTA at 20, the New Spin. Report from Foreign Policy in Focus, Institute for Policy Studies. From the report, "The arguments developed prior to the signing of NAFTA focused primarily on the claim that the trade agreement would make Mexico a nation of producers and exporters. These initial promises failed to deliver."
Read the report here.
Read the report here.
NAFTA at 20 - report from Public Citizen on the record of the North American Free Trade Area - jobs lost, instability, inequality, corporate attacks on environmental and health laws. Read the report here.
NAFTA, 20 Years of Costs to Communities and the Environment - report by Sierra Club, The Council of Canadians, RMALC, Institute of Policy Studies and Sierra Club Canada. Read the report here.
CAFTA at 10 years old
CAFTA’s Decade of Empty Promises Haunts the TPP
"Today in Central America, life-saving medicines are more expensive due to monopoly protections that CAFTA gave to pharmaceutical corporations – protections that are slated for expansion in the TPP. And the headlines from several CAFTA countries do not report economic prosperity, but economic instability, drug violence and forced migration. Meanwhile, CAFTA’s labor provisions have failed to halt the assassination of dozens of Central American union workers who were trying to end unmitigated labor abuses like wage theft. In contrast, the pact’s foreign investor privileges, which the TPP would expand, have succeeded in empowering multinational corporations to challenge domestic laws, including consumer and environmental protections." Read the full report from Public Citizen. .
"Today in Central America, life-saving medicines are more expensive due to monopoly protections that CAFTA gave to pharmaceutical corporations – protections that are slated for expansion in the TPP. And the headlines from several CAFTA countries do not report economic prosperity, but economic instability, drug violence and forced migration. Meanwhile, CAFTA’s labor provisions have failed to halt the assassination of dozens of Central American union workers who were trying to end unmitigated labor abuses like wage theft. In contrast, the pact’s foreign investor privileges, which the TPP would expand, have succeeded in empowering multinational corporations to challenge domestic laws, including consumer and environmental protections." Read the full report from Public Citizen. .
A new report from the Economic Policy Institute:
No Jobs From Trade Pacts: The Trans-Pacific Partnership Could Be Much Worse Than The Over-Hyped Korea Deal
Read the full report here (pdf)
No Jobs From Trade Pacts: The Trans-Pacific Partnership Could Be Much Worse Than The Over-Hyped Korea Deal
Read the full report here (pdf)
Profiting From Injustice
How law firms, arbitrators and financiers are fueling an investment arbitration boom
The last two decades have witnessed the silent rise of a powerful international investment regime that has ensnared hundreds of countries and put corporate profit before human rights and the environment.
International investment treaties are agreements made between states that determine the rights of investors in each other’s territories. They are used by powerful companies to sue governments if policy changes – even ones to protect public health or the environment – are deemed to affect their profits
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Read the Executive Summary here (pdf)
Read the full report here (pdf).
The last two decades have witnessed the silent rise of a powerful international investment regime that has ensnared hundreds of countries and put corporate profit before human rights and the environment.
International investment treaties are agreements made between states that determine the rights of investors in each other’s territories. They are used by powerful companies to sue governments if policy changes – even ones to protect public health or the environment – are deemed to affect their profits
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Read the Executive Summary here (pdf)
Read the full report here (pdf).
