While Baltimoristan riots steels our attention, Obama is preparing to shove the TPP up our asses…
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Today, 13 November 2013, WikiLeaks released the secret negotiated draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rightsimage: http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png
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 Obamaimage: http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png
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
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Advanced Intellectual Property Chapter for All 12 Nations with Negotiating Positions (August 30 2013 consolidated bracketed negotiating text)
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https://wikileaks.org/tpp/
Going by the intellectual propertyimage: http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png
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 propertyimage: http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png
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 corporationsimage: http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png
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 systemimage: http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png
and citizens of countries operating within it.
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. 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 hereWikiLeaks About Donate Bankingimage: http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png
Blockade Press Chat SupportersDownload the full secret TPP treaty IP chapter as a PDF here
WikiLeaks Release of Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreementimage: http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png
(TPP)Advanced Intellectual Property Chapter for All 12 Nations with Negotiating Positions (August 30 2013 consolidated bracketed negotiating text)
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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 propertyimage: http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png
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 propertyimage: http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png
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 corporationsimage: http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png
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 systemimage: http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png
and citizens of countries operating within it.
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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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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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