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TPP and Agriculture
Statement from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Whose Century Is It?: The Trans-Pacific Partnership, Food and the “21st-Century Trade Agreement” ,TPP has the potential to impact agriculture and food systems on a large scale. There isn’t a single TPP chapter on agriculture in TPP; rather, issues impacting food and agriculture are scattered throughout the deal. The Stealth Trade Agreement That Could Super-Size Industrial Agriculture The “finish line is in sight” for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would likely send a generation of forward-thinking agrarian reform straight down the drain. TPP and Democracy
Statement by Demos, Thomas Hedges- TPP Will Supersede Domestic Law In Favor of Corporations. Statement by Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese - TPP Will Undermine Democracy, Empower Transnational Corporations Statement from Coalition for a Prosperous America - The Trans-Pacific Partnership Would Destroy Our Sovereignty TPP and the Environment
Statement from Sierra Club - Trans-Pacific Partnership - Wrong Trade Deal for the U.S. TPP and GDP
Report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research: Gains from Trade? The Net Effect of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement on U.S. Wages "... the United States may see cumulative GDP gains of 0.13 percent by 2025 if the TPP were implemented.2 This figure is meaninglessly tiny in almost any reasonable context." TPP and GMOs
Will a Secretive International Trade Deal Ban GMO Labeling? James Trimarco claims that "The Trans Pacific Partnership is likely to be a setback for efforts to regulate and label GMO foods" in this article from Yes! magazine. TPP and the Internet
Exec Summary of report from InfoJustice.org on the implications of the leaked Intellectual Property Rights chapter on the internet, including a set of recommendations regarding policy designed to safeguard a free and open internet. Article 19 Analysis of the Trans Pacific Partnership Intellectual Property Chapter Dated Nov. 29, 2013 Statement from the Electronic Frontier Foundation - The Daily Dot - How International Trade Agreements Threaten Our Internet - A Primer |
TPP and Labeling
Trans-Pacific Partnership could prevent clearer food labelling – health advocates Under the free trade deal, a foreign company could sue the government if sales dropped after labelling was introduced, says the Public Health Association TPP rules could block alcohol warning - Australia has been working to implement health warning labels on alcohol but proposed TPP rules could prohibit effective labeling. TPP and Labor
Statement by AFL-CIO - The Trans-Pacific Partnership, Labor Needs a New Trade Model (PDF version here) TPP and Medicines
The "Trade" deal that could inflate your healthcare bill. The TPP threatens to chill American government proposals to rein up exorbitant medicine prices. The Trans Pacific Partnership: Implications for Access to Medicines and Public Health. World Health Organization (UNITAID) issues report on the likely effects of the Intellectual Property Rights TPP chapter will have on Medicines and Public Health Read the report here How patent rules could keep new hepatitis drug from saving "millions of lives" New hepatitis treatment could save millions if produced as generic but TPP could prevent that. Details how TPP could impact generic production in India even if India is not party to the agreement How the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Threatens Access to Medicines This report is from Doctors Without Border. While written in 2011, the leaked Intellectual Property Rights chapter confirms what this report claimed to be the US bargaining position TPP Negotiations and the Controversial Issue of Pharmaceutical Test Data Protection by Mike Palmedo. This is a very detailed look at the problem which will result if the present content of the TPP regarding access to generic medicines is not changed. Brochure from Doctors Without Borders - Trading Away Health - The Trans-Pacific Partnership Letter signed by AARP, AFSCME, Consumers Union and others pointing to dangers posed by non-transparent negotiating process and TPP provisions regarding data exclucivity. Includes note of specific American laws which could be challenged under existing US So. Korea Free Trade agreement and the TPP proposal. TPP AND Public Banking
From the Public Banking Institution - Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership a Danger to Public Banks? Many people fear that secretive trade talks with corporate lobbyists may prohibit public rights to control common assets. TPP and Small Business
Coalition for a Prosperous America - Official Comments on Korea Trade Agreement Study |
Posted March 9, 2013
Peril in the Pacific - No to the TPP
This video from Friends of the Earth covers how the Investor Protection Clause of the US Ecuador Free Trade Agreement has been used to undermine environment protection in Ecuador. Details the case of Chevron v Ecuador and how the agreement's investor protection clause is used to undermine democratic decision making.
Feb 23, 2013 Public Citizen issues a report on the Korea, Panama and Columbia free trade agreements enacted last year. The report notes that, while the agreements were supposed to increase American exports to South Korea, improve the position of labor in Columbia and increase tax haven transparency in Panama, exports have decreased, death threats on unionists in Columbia have continued, and no progress has been made on transparency. Read their report here.
Feb. 17 2013. Exec Director of Citizens Trade Campaign is interviewed by David Delk host of Alliance for Democracy - Populist Dialogues on the Trans Pacific Partnership.
Feb 13, 2013 Oregon Senator Merkley Calls for New Approach to Labor and Environmental Standards and Crackdown on Unfair Foreign Subsidies in Upcoming Trade Agreement. Read More.
Global Investment Rules: Threat to Democracy and the Environment
Video covers three specific corporate challenges to environmental and health laws before the international trade tribunal, the ICSID. One is the case in Bolivia about Bechlet and water rights; a second is about gold mining in El Salvador; a third concerns cigarette labeling in Uruguay. Also talks about how people and nations have responded to these pro-corporate trade agreements.
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)
400 organizations sign opposition to Fast Track and TPP
On March 4, 2013, members of Congress received copies of a letter signed by over 400 organizations, representing over 15 million people, expressing their opposition to Fast Track Authority for the president to negotiate the Trans Pacific Partnership and calling for a new direction in trade agreements. 29 of those organizations were here in Oregon including the Alliance for Democracy, Move to Amend PDX, Economic Justice Action Group of the First Unitarian Church. Read the letter here.
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).
