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On 13 November 2013, WikiLeaks released the secret negotiated draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The TPP is the largest-ever economic treaty, encompassing nations representing more than 40 per cent of the world’s GDP. The WikiLeaks release of the text comes ahead of the decisive TPP Chief Negotiators summit in Salt Lake City, Utah, on 19-24 November 2013. The chapter published by WikiLeaks is perhaps the most controversial chapter of the TPP due to its wide-ranging effects on medicines, publishers, internet services, civil liberties and biological patents. Significantly, the released text includes the negotiation positions and disagreements between all 12 prospective member states.
The TPP is the forerunner to the equally secret US-EU pact TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership), for which President Obama initiated US-EU negotiations in January 2013. Together, the TPP and TTIP will cover more than 60 per cent of global GDP. Read full press release here
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Download the full secret TPP treaty IP chapter as a PDF here
WikiLeaks Release of Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)
Advanced Intellectual Property Chapter for All 12 Nations with Negotiating Positions (August 30 2013 consolidated bracketed negotiating text)
Wake up economists. The TPP is not “free trade”
While economists do generally agree that free trade is welfare enhancing, there is one fundamental problem with professor Mankiw’s argument: the TPP would not facilitate freer trade. Rather, it would have the opposite impact.
Going by the intellectual property and investment chapters that have been leaked via WikiLeaks, the TPP would establish a US-style regulatory structure that would hand considerable monopoly-style power to US pharmaceutical and digital firms, limiting choice and raising prices for consumers. It is the very oppositite of the free trade Mankiw advocates.
Included in the draft intellectual property chapter was the proposal to extend patent protection and strengthen monopolies on clinical data. It also flagged the extension of patents for “new forms” of known substances, as well as on new uses on old medicines – an outcome that would lead to “evergreening”, whereby patents can be renewed continuously.
There draft intellectual property chapter also contained clauses to prevent circumvention of technology that restricts products to certain regions – an outcome that would hand greater pricing power to copyright holders at the expense of consumers.
The draft investment chapter, which included an Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) clause, would also give authority to major corporations to challenge laws made by governments in the national interest in international courts of arbitration, thus increasing their ability to extract monopoly-style rents from taxpayers.
As noted previously, several notable experts have voiced strong opposition to the TPP fearing that it represents grave risks for the global trading system and citizens of countries operating within it.
Former World Trade Organisation (WTO) director-general, Supachai Panitchpakdi, claims the TPP represents a step backwards to the days before the WTO when the US and Europe controlled the global trading system to the detriment of other economies.
http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/04/wake-economists-tpp-not-free-trade/
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Read more at http://investmentwatchblog.com/while-baltimoristan-riots-steels-our-attention-obama-is-preparing-to-shove-the-tpp-up-our-asses/#zU1tjXJGizhRX1K0.99
TPP is a sovereignty-destroying treaty that makes all of us subject to U.N. tribunals, and increases the power of multi-national corporations already destroying this country.
NO ONE is in favor of this except a gang of billionaires, but it’s going to be ratified anyway because the Zionist “new world order” demands it.
This treaty represents the destruction of this nation, unless YOU are ready to save it. You can’t stop the treaty, but you don’t have to abide by it, and you don’t have to slave away under the tyranny it imposes. You’re going to fight for your freedom and Bill of Rights, or you’re going to lose them. TPP is just another step in the process of losing them.
Jolly, agree with you. These folks are in a private club, and we are not members. We just don’t comply!
I don’t, and won’t, participate in any garbage which may be decreed !
And when they think they’ve got the where with all to force me,
and mine, they’ll experience a really bad day ……….
From there, it’ll be time to hunt those who sent them.
The stage is being set, and the curtain is about to rise on the
restoration of our Republic.
I am ready …are you ?
I didnt sign any treaty did you?