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TPP

The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP or TPP for short) is a trade and investment agreement that was signed on 7 March 2018 between 11 Pacific Rim countries: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. The pact went into force on 30 December 2018 among the members who have ratified it. The US withdrew from it in January 2017.

The investment chapter includes investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) provisions. Civil society groups have blasted the mechanism, as it gives a foreign investor or company disproportionate powers vis-à-vis governments or domestic companies. Foreign investors can resort to a parallel system of justice specifically made for them to challenge public health, the environment and other public-interest ‘safeguards’, and bypass national justice courts.

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(March 2020)

Lessons to learn from TPP: What the EU shouldn’t do in TTIP
BEUC | 3-Dec-2015
Although TPP seems a remote issue, it could have a direct impact on EU consumers.
CPTPP , EU , investor-state disputes | ISDS , medicines , TTIP
TPP & ISDS: new tests for India
Gateway House | 27-Nov-2015
For India, the U.S.-driven Trans Pacific Partnership will skew investment and intellectual property rights, and especially the debate over the Investor State Dispute System which allows companies to challenge soverign rights and public policy.
CPTPP , India , intellectual property , investor-state disputes | ISDS , US
The new gold standard? Empirically situating the TPP in the investment treaty universe
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies | 25-Nov-2015
The TPP investment chapter offers few truly novel features and is instead heavily influenced by prior American treaty practice.
bilateralism & multilateralism , CPTPP , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS
The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the environment: an assessment of commitments and trade agreement enforcement
CIEL | 19-Nov-2015
Like TPP, U.S. free trade agreement (FTA) formed in the past two decades have similarly promised meaningful and enforceable labor and environmental safeguards.
actions | resistance , CPTPP , environment , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Trans-Pacific Partnership investment chapter: maintaining important protections for U.S. investors overseas
The National Law Review | 19-Nov-2015
The final text of the TPP’s Investment Chapter remains broadly consistent with other U.S. investment agreements and includes some important new language that is consistent with the U.S. Model BIT issued by the U.S. State Department
CPTPP , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , US
What a new NAFTA complaint can tell us about the TPP
AFL-CIO | 16-Nov-2015
A coalition of U.S. and Mexican labor and civil society groups are taking an unprecedented legal approach to protect workers’ rights that will test the strength of labor protections in international trade agreements.
CPTPP , investor-state disputes | ISDS , labour | workers’ rights , NAFTA | USMCA
A first glance at the Investment Chapter of the TPP agreement: a familar US-style structure with a few novel twists
IA Reporter | 16-Nov-2015
In broad terms, the agreement’s investment chapter looks familiar – particularly in relation to other recent U.S. investment treaties and FTAs.
CPTPP , investor-state disputes | ISDS
TPP’s clauses that let Australia be sued are weapons of legal destruction, says lawyer
The Guardian | 11-Nov-2015
Leading arbitration lawyer says there are critical loopholes in the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s investment chapter that leave Australia wide open
Australia , CPTPP , investor-state disputes | ISDS
TPP – Dictadura de las Empresas Transnacionales
Servindi | 9-Nov-2015
La democracia burguesa en la época neoliberal se transforma cada día más en abierta dictadura de las grandes empresas transnacionales, por encima de los estados y de los gobiernos.
corporate interests , CPTPP , e-commerce | digital economy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Peru
Secret TPP text unveiled: it’s worse than we thought
Public Citizen | 6-Nov-2015
Long-awaited text reveals gaps between Administration claims and actual TPP terms on key public concerns
actions | resistance , CPTPP , environment , food safety | SPS , intellectual property , investor-state disputes | ISDS