{"id":279,"date":"2011-01-11T14:29:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T19:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenstrade.org\/draft\/tpp-potential-trade-policy-problems\/"},"modified":"2014-01-09T20:28:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T01:28:12","slug":"tpp-potential-trade-policy-problems","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/trade-policies\/tpp-potential-trade-policy-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement: <\/strong>NAFTA for the Pacific Rim?<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership
\n<\/a>What Corporations Want in Trans-Pacific Trade Negotiations
\n<\/a>The TPP’s Threats to Public Health<\/a>
\nThe TPP and the Environment
\n<\/a>The TPP Organizer’s Toolkit<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a massive new international trade pact being pushed by the U.S. government at the behest of transnational corporations.\u00a0The TPP is already being negotiated between the United States, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, and most recently, Japan \u2014 which together cover approximately 40% of the global economy. \u00a0But it is also specifically intended as a \u201cdocking agreement\u201d that other Pacific Rim countries would join over time, with the Philippines, Thailand, Colombia and others already expressing interest. \u00a0It is poised to become the largest Free Trade Agreement in the world.<\/p>\n

The Obama administration\u2019s embrace of the Bush-negotiated Korea, Panama and Colombia Free Trade Agreements leaves many worried that the Trans-Pacific Partnship will become nothing but a massive new NAFTA-style agreement.\u00a0 Indeed, while none of the negotiating text for the FTA has ever been officially released, it is already clear that trade negotiators are using past free trade agreements as their basic starting point for this one. \u00a0The leaked\u00a0<\/a>text\u00a0of several chapters, in fact, show rollbacks from the Bush years on topics like access to medicine<\/a> and zero progress on\u00a0investment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The ongoing, multi-year negotiations over the TPP are supposed to conclude this year, and as such, the window of opportunity for preventing the FTA from becoming a new “NAFTA for the Pacific Rim” is rapidly closing.\u00a0 Here are some of the questions yet to be answered:<\/p>\n