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El Acuerdo Integral y Progresivo para la Asociación Transpacífico (CPTPP o TPP por sus siglas en inglés) es un acuerdo comercial y de inversión que fue firmado el 7 de marzo de 2018 entre 11 países de la cuenca del Pacífico: Australia, Brunei, Canadá, Chile, Japón, Malasia, México, Nueva Zelandia, Perú, Singapur y Vietnam. El pacto entró en vigor el 30 de diciembre de 2018 entre los miembros que lo han ratificado. Los EE.UU. se retiraron de él en enero de 2017.

El capítulo de inversión incluye un mecanismo de arbitraje de disputas entre inversionistas y Estados (ISDS). Los grupos de la sociedad civil han tronado contra el mecanismo, puesto que concede a los inversionistas o compañías del extranjero poderes desproporcionados frente a los gobiernos o las compañías locales. Los inversionistas extranjeros podrían darle la vuelta a las cortes jurídicas nacionales y recurrir a un sistema paralelo de justicia, confeccionado especialmente para ellos.
La salud pública, el ambiente y otras “salvaguardas” de interés público, serian socavados por las previsiones ISDS en el TPP.

Foto: Blink O’Fanaye / CC BY-NC 2.0

(marzo de 2020)

ISDS: The devil in the trade deal
ABC | 14-sep-2014
A common provision allowing foreign investors to sue host governments has become a ticking time bomb inside trade agreements. Some countries are now refusing to agree to the provision and are questioning its legal legitimacy. Jess Hill investigates.
audio , Australia , CPTPP , litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS , TTIP
Eight reasons to purge investor-state dispute settlement from trade agreements
| 6-mar-2014
For a variety of reasons, including poor management of public perceptions, the administration’s trade agenda is in trouble. Much of the public’s antipathy toward trade agreements can be boiled down to concerns about the so-called Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provision. ISDS enables foreign investors to circumvent domestic legal processes and sue host governments in third-party arbitration tribunals for unfair or discriminatory treatment – described hyperbolically by those fanning the flames of opposition as “running roughshod over domestic laws, regulations, and sovereignty.”
CPTPP , Estados Unidos , intereses corporativos , inversión | TBI , litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS
Assessing the exposure of Asian states to investment claims
SSRN | 20-feb-2014
Although some IIAs have generated a few disputes for technical reasons, it is rather predictable that Asian states are currently entering an era in which foreign investors are likely to multiply claims.
Asia , CPTPP , litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS
Trans-Pacific Partnership talks hit roadblock over anti-smoking policies
| 25-ago-2013
Fast-moving trade talks aimed at reaching an ambitious Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal have hit a major snag over anti-smoking policies, as divisions emerged over a proposal critics say would expose governments to lawsuits from tobacco companies.
CPTPP , litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS , salud
FTAs actually restrict free trade
| 3-ago-2013
We are told that when trade is free, there will be more trade and nations will prosper. To achieve even freer trade the nations of the world must enter into free trade agreements.
CPTPP , inversión | TBI , litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS , Malasia
Nurul Izzah: Don’t bow down to pressure on TPP
| 31-jul-2013
Malaysia’s Parti Keadilan Rakyat VP Nurul Izzah Anwar has accused the Ministry of International Trade and Industry of bowing down to pressure when it agreed to clauses on investor-state dispute settlement in negotiations for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement.
CPTPP , inversión | TBI , litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS , Malasia
Consumers International releases three new papers on the TPP for the Lima round
| 20-may-2013
Consumers International (CI) has commissioned the production of three papers, the first on the competition chapter by one of our members, and the other two by independent experts, respectively covering the investment chapter and how it affects A2K, and the free flow of information provision and its impacts on privacy.
acciones | resistencia , CPTPP , litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS , política de competencias
Will the Pacific trade deal protect workers?
AJE | 8-dic-2012
Al Jazeera ask if the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations have rendered democratic decision-making irrelevant.
CPTPP , litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS , vídeo
Big Tobacco warning at free-trade talks
| 11-sep-2012
Delegates attending trans-Pacific free-trade negotiations in the United States are being warned their countries could end up like Australia if they agree to allow corporations to sue governments in international courts.
Australia , CPTPP , Estados Unidos , inversión | TBI , litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS , salud
Plain packaging risks lawsuits
| 21-may-2012
Smoking is bad for our health. Smoking is detrimental to our economic well-being - smoking-related conditions and diseases cost the health service in this country millions and millions of dollars each year. But moves to reduce or stop smoking in this country could cost us just as much if not more.
CPTPP , Estados Unidos , inversión | TBI , litigios inversionista-estado | ISDS , Nueva Zelandia , propiedad intelectual , salud