TPP Trade Agreements
The cluster discusses the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and related trade deals like TTIP and TiSA, focusing on criticisms of their secrecy, IP exportation, WTO compliance, and impacts on global trade rules.
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Might be because it'll cause issues with EU or WTO trade rules.
This is untrue. It encodes the US's broken anti-circumvention law on the global stage, which restricts our ability to freely trade with eachother. There are gains from trade and the TPP should not be used to stop them.
So you don't support things like this?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_Trade_and_Invest...
Not a fan of Trump but this is a good thing. See this exert from John Oliver on the effect of such trade deals; https://youtu.be/6UsHHOCH4q8And that's the existing trade deals, TPP would have made it much worse. There is a reason why democratically elected governments need to protect their sovereignty. The scope of the legal provisions along with the requirement to use easily corruptible mediation is
That would probably violate trade agreements.
Have you heard of TRIPS and how that was negotiated and led by the US? Might change your mind
Sounds like somewhat the TPP. I wonder what in the trade agreement made this a worthwhile compromise.
There are 3 agreements being negotiated TPP, TTIP & TiSA to set the economic structure of the world by US.
Opening paragraph: "Officials from the United States and 11 other countries bordering the Pacific are trying to complete a trade agreement by the end of the year that could help all of our economies and strengthen relations between the United States and several important Asian allies."Sounds pretty positive and makes it look like only a totally irrational person would oppose it...Last paragraph: "A good agreement would lower duties and trade barriers on most products and ser
How is this not a World Trade Organization treaty violation? Serious question.