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Leaked Pacific trade pact draft shows investment carve-outs sought
Reuters | 27-Mar-2015
Australia’s medicine subsidies, Canadian films and culture, and capital controls in Chile would be carved out from investment protection rules being negotiated in a Pacific trade pact, according to a draft text released by Wikileaks on Wednesday.
keywords: Australia , Canada , Chile , CPTPP , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Malaysia
Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) - Investment Chapter
WikiLeaks | 26-Mar-2015
WikiLeaks annonces its release of the "Investment Chapter" from the secret negotiations of the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) agreement.
keywords: CPTPP , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , leaks , WikiLeaks
Trans-Pacific Partnership: Trade deal could force Australian Government to spend millions to subsidise medicines, expert warns
Australia Broadcasting Corporation | 19-Mar-2015
Australia’s primary negotiator on medicines for the US-Australia FTA, Dr Ruth Lopert, warns that the TPP could force the Australian Government to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to subsidise medicines.
keywords: Australia , CPTPP , intellectual property , investor-state disputes | ISDS , medicines
Where are the TPP negotiations up to?
Australia Broadcasting Corporation | 4-Mar-2015
Discussion with Susan Sell, Matthew Rimmer and Jane Kelsey
keywords: audio , Australia , CPTPP , investor-state disputes | ISDS , New Zealand , US
The Trans-Pacific Partnership clause everyone should oppose
Washington Post | 26-Feb-2015
"Agreeing to ISDS in this enormous new treaty would tilt the playing field in the United States further in favor of big multinational corporations. Worse, it would undermine U.S. sovereignty," writes Elizabeth Warren.
keywords: CPTPP , investor-state disputes | ISDS , US
Corporate coup d’état: Those crappy trade deals
Counter Punch | 18-Feb-2015
The corporate media would prefer that people know nothing about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), the US-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and other trade deals.
keywords: actions | resistance , Canada , corporate interests , CPTPP , energy , environment , EU , investor-state disputes | ISDS , TTIP , US
Protect our climate and health, not multinational profits
Scoop | 13-Feb-2015
This week’s edition of world-leading medical journal The Lancet includes a call by 27 health experts from New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, the USA, and Vietnam for the TPPA to be made public so its overall health impacts can be assessed.
keywords: climate , CPTPP , environment , health , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Elizabeth Warren: Obama trade deal could undermine Wall Street reform
Huffington Post | 19-Dec-2014
US Senator Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday warned that a major trade deal being negotiated by the Obama administration could hamstring Wall Street reform efforts.
keywords: CPTPP , finance | banking | taxes , investor-state disputes | ISDS , US
TPP deal not about trade, should be stopped
Guam PDN | 17-Nov-2014
The Trans-Pacific Partnership threatens workers’ rights in the 12 nations negotiating the deal, say Communications Workers of America
keywords: actions | resistance , CPTPP , investor-state disputes | ISDS , labour | workers’ rights
Never mind ISIS, it’s ISDS that’s the real threat
The Nation | 12-Nov-2014
If a “high-standard” ISDS is included in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the results could be catastrophic, especially for the environment and people fighting to protect the environment.
keywords: CPTPP , investor-state disputes | ISDS