Trade Deal

TPP Trade Deal: Plain Packaging Challenge Triggered ‘Hysteria’

October 12, 2016 Katharine Murphy, www.theguardian.com Organize! Congress, TPP, Trade Deal

By Katharine Murphy for The Guardian - The legal counsel to tobacco giant Philip Morris has told a parliamentary committee that people have responded hysterically to a landmark legal case challenging Australia’s plain packaging laws. Philip Morris, in the first investor-state dispute ever brought against Australia, used a 1993 investment agreement between Australia and Hong Kong to challenge the then Labor government’s plain packaging laws.

Don’t Be Fooled: The TPP Is Not About National Security

October 7, 2016 Jeff Faux, www.theglobalist.com Educate! National Security, TPP, Trade Deal

By Jeff Faux for The Globalist - During the 1993 U.S. congressional debate over the North American Free Trade Agreement, a Democratic Congressman with a solid pro-labor voting record asked me why I thought NAFTA would be bad for working people. After I had given my answer, he responded: “Well, you may be right about the economics.” “But we have a 2000-mile border with Mexico. The President told me we need NAFTA to make it secure.”

Day Of Action Against Trans-Pacific Partnership Speaks To Canadians

October 7, 2016 Erin Calhoun, www.thestrand.ca Resist! Canada, Protests, TPP, Trade Deal

By Erin Calhoun for The Strand - On September 16, 2016, the Canadian Communications workers of America (CWA) held “Day of Action Against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).” To protest the TPP, the CWA organized an academic forum where representatives from Doctors Without Borders, Canadian Environmental Law Association, and Osgoode Hall law professor Gus Van Harten, all discussed how the TPP threatens national sovereignty, health, and the environment.

Cherry-Picking Trade Polls To Pave Way For A TPP Flip-Flop

September 30, 2016 Jim Naureckas, www.fair.org Organize! TPP, Trade Deal

By Jim Naureckas for FAIR - Dean Baker (FAIR.org, 9/23/16) was rightly skeptical of a New York Times article (“Who Hates Free Trade Treaties? Surprisingly, Not Voters,” 9/21/16) reporting that polling showed support for trade agreements, noting that it used the concepts of “trade,” “free trade” and “trade agreements” interchangeably. “As everyone knows, except apparently the people who work for the New York Times, these are not the same thing,” Baker pointed out.

Meet TISA, ‘Secret Privatisation Pact Posing Threat To Democracy’

September 3, 2016 Ian Johnston, www.independent.co.uk Educate! TISA, Trade Deal

By Ian Johnston for The Guardian - Government insists 'public services are under no threat whatsoever from this deal' An international trade deal being negotiated in secret is a “turbo-charged privatisation pact” that poses a threat to democratic sovereignty and “the very concept of public services”, campaigners have warned. But this is not TTIP – the international agreement it appears campaigners in the European Union have managed to scupper over similar concerns – this is TISA, a deal backed by some of the world’s biggest corporations, such as Microsoft, Google, IBM, Walt Disney, Walmart, Citigroup and JP Morgan Chase.

Prepare For TPP’s Big Brother: The Trade In Services Agreement

August 19, 2016 Paola Casale, www.economyincrisis.org Resist! TISA, TPP, Trade Deal, TTIP

By Paola Casale for Economy In Crisis - Not much is known about the Trade in Services Agreement, otherwise known as TISA. However the little that has been made public, or the little that has been leaked, has caused much concern. The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) pales in comparison to TISA and it makes the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) seem small. It is, however, most similar to the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Millions Of People Yearning For A “Brexit” From Destructive Trade Deals

August 1, 2016 Maude Barlow, www.canadians.org Resist! Canada, TPP, Trade Deal

By Maude Barlow for The Council of Canadians - U.S. President Barack Obama’s recent visit to Canada, against the backdrop of Brexit and the U.S. presidential campaign, had many opinion leaders trying to dismiss concerns about free trade. Now, we’re told, people who are against free trade are isolationists who want to entrench themselves in the past, in a parochial nostalgia for the nation-state. The ideology of free trade opponents can only lead to an inward-looking mentality that fosters wars and destroys the economy.

Is The Trans-Pacific Partnership President Obama’s Vietnam?

July 26, 2016 Dean Baker, www.truth-out.org Educate! Barack Obama, Free Trade, TPP, Trade Deal, Vietnam

By Dean Baker for Truthout - The prospects for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are not looking very good right now. Both parties' presidential candidates have come out against the deal. Donald Trump has placed it at the top of his list of bad trade deals that he wants to stop or reverse. Hillary Clinton had been a supporter as secretary of state, but has since joined the opposition in response to overwhelming pressure from the Democratic base. As a concession to President Obama, the Democratic platform does not explicitly oppose the TPP.

Another Corporation Suing Our Government Thanks To Trade Agreements

June 29, 2016 Dave Johnson, www.ourfuture.org Educate! Free Trade, Free Trade Agreements, NAFTA, Trade Deal

By Dave Johnson for Campaign for America's Future - A Canadian corporation is suing the us because we wouldn’t let them build a pipeline across our country (seizing people’s property along the way) so they could sell oil to China. They can do this because we signed a trade agreement that places corporate rights above our democracy. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would increase by an order of magnitude the companies that can sue us for hurting their profits by protecting the environment, consumers, public health and small businesses.

Lie That “China Wins” If TPP Kangaroo Tribunals Are Stopped

June 14, 2016 William K. Black, www.neweconomicperspectives.org Educate! China, TPP, Trade Deal

By William K. Black for New Economic Perspectives - Proponents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) know that they have a major problem. Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump each oppose the deal. CEOs, however, have not given up on their dream of being able to rig the international system through the creation of kangaroo tribunals that can, effectively, destroy effective regulation and the enforcement of rules to protect the public. As I explained in my most recent column on this subject, “trade” is simply the pretext for this assault on the rule of law and national sovereignty.

Keeping Lid On Trade Deals: “Trasparent” Facade Bolsters Secrecy

June 3, 2016 Celia Wexler, www.whowhatwhy.org Educate! Secrecy, Trade Deal

By Celia Wexler for Who What Why - A few decades ago, the details of trade deals might not have mattered to the public at large since what was at stake was mostly tariffs and quotas. But the multi-country megadeals of the 21st century will directly affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people — in ways that may come as an unpleasant surprise to many of them. The outcome of current negotiations will shape a broad range of pocketbook and health issues

Emails Show How Wall Street Execs And Alums Crafted Trade Bill

June 3, 2016 Kathy Kiely, www.billmoyers.com Educate! Trade Deal, Wall Street

By Kathy Kiely for Moyers and Company - Foreign corporations could sue to undermine US protections for consumers’ health, safety and financial security under a provision added to the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal (TPP) after executives of big banks pressed the nation’s chief trade negotiator, himself a former big-bank executive, to include it. A series of emails, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and released last week byRootstrikers, an organization that opposes the trade deal now pending before Congress...

Revolving Door In Office Of U.S. Trade Representative, Part 1

June 1, 2016 Bill Waren, www.medium.com Educate! TISA, TPP, Trade Deal, TTIP

By Bill Waren for Medium - The Obama White House and the Republican leadership in Congress are pushing hard for three massive and environmentally- destructive[2] trade agreements: the Trans Pacific Partnership[3], the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership[4] and the Trade in Services Agreement[5]. These three agreements and similar deals going back to the North American Free Trade Agreement reflect the philosophy and culture of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, which assume that many forms of regulation by democratic institutions inhibit global economic growth.[6]

TPP Advocates Playing The Fear China Card

May 31, 2016 Vicki Needham, www.thehill.com Educate! China, TPP, Trade Deal

By Vicki Needham for The Hill - Trade supporters are pushing the geopolitical importance of a sweeping Asia-Pacific agreement in an effort to save the deal from defeat on Capitol Hill. Proponents are arguing that passing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will demonstrate U.S. leadership in the region and will define future economic relationships that assure the long-term stability of the Pacific Rim. “TPP recognizes both America’s concrete economic interests in Asia and demonstrates U.S. steadfastness,” Robert Zoellick, the former World Bank president and U.S. trade representative...

Faith In Big Trade Deals Keeps Crumbling

May 30, 2016 Murray Dobbin, www.informationclearinghouse.info Resist! Trade Deal, TTIP

By Murray Dobbin for Information Clearing House - Are we witnessing the beginning of the end of globalization? May 28, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - "The Tyee" - At the height of the battle over the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement in the 1980s, full page ads promised the deal would bring "more jobs, better jobs." The ads were expensive, but easily afforded by Canada's 160 largest public corporations, who paid for them as the Business Council on National Issues.

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