ISDS Case Map
CPTPP
Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
What are the likely implications of the TPPA for investment law? The draft investment chapter is largely completed. It generally follows the 2004 US model BIT, with a few significant square brackets, writes Jane Kelsey.
For Japan, TPP will be almost a bilateral free trade agreement with the US.
The TPP is a testament to the ability of US industrial lobbies, Congress, and presidents to obfuscate public policy.
Deals could have profound effects on jobs, privacy, costs, food and health care
Sign on to reach the goal of 25,000 signatures before 26 December 2011
Negotiators from nine Pacific nations seeking a trade agreement should create a path for countries including Japan to join eventually, most likely after an initial accord is reached, Representative Kevin Brady said.
The scholars' analysis concludes that the "US proposals, if adopted,
would upset the current international framework balancing the minimum
standards for exclusive rights for media and technology owners, on the
one hand, and the access rights of the public, competitors, innovators
and creators, on the other."
Commentators are worried that the US may be pressuring countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) - an Asia-Pacific-wide free trade pact - to abolish the labelling of GM foods, which it regards as a trade barrier.
The Obama administration’s Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks in Malaysia this week underscore the point that critics of this potential trade deal have been making for months: Despite Obama’s pledges to negotiate a high-standard deal and do so transparently, the negotiations continue to take place in extreme secrecy.
Protests greeted the first day of preliminary round talks among officials from nine countries working toward a Pacific free trade pact Monday.
