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TPP

L’Accord de Partenariat transpacifique global et progressiste (CPTPP ou TPP en abrégé, selon les acronymes anglais) est un accord de commerce et d’investissement qui a été signé le 7 mars 2018 entre 11 pays de la région du Pacifique : Australie, Brunei, Canada, Chili, Japon, Malaisie, Mexique, Nouvelle-Zélande, Pérou, Singapour et Vietnam. Le pacte est entré en vigueur le 30 décembre 2018 parmi les membres qui l’ont ratifié. Les États-Unis s’en sont retirés en janvier 2017.

Le chapitre sur l’investissement comprend des dispositions relatives au règlement des différends entre investisseurs et États (ISDS). Des groupes de la société civile ont fortement critiqué ce mécanisme, car il donne à un investisseur ou à une entreprise étrangère des pouvoirs disproportionnés par rapport aux gouvernements ou aux entreprises nationales. Les investisseurs étrangers peuvent recourir à un système judiciaire parallèle spécialement conçu pour eux afin de contester la santé publique, l’environnement et d’autres "garanties" d’intérêt public, et contourner les tribunaux nationaux.

(mars 2020)

Legal experts weigh in on TPP

Australasian Lawyer | 9-oct-2015

Law firms are among the many Australian businesses likely to benefit from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Australie , litiges investisseurs-état , TPP

TPP deal includes tobacco carveout, teeing up fight with congress

Global Trade Online | 7-oct-2015

Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) countries have agreed on language that will allow members to exclude tobacco control measures from the scope of investor-state dispute settlement.

Australie , États-Unis d’Amérique , litiges investisseurs-état , santé , TPP

TPP carve out for tobacco shows core flaws in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS)

Info Justice | 2-oct-2015

The new exception validates, rather than assuages, the concerns of those who have been criticizing ISDS systems for many years. Without express carve outs, ISDS provisions do threaten common health and safety regulations.

litiges investisseurs-état , TPP

US pushes anti-tobacco compromise in Pacific trade deal

The Edge Markets | 2-oct-2015

Governments will be allowed to block tobacco companies from suing over anti-smoking measures under a US proposal being considered by Pacific trading partners as part of Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.

litiges investisseurs-état , santé , TPP

Selling Canada out, one deal at a time

The Star | 2-oct-2015

What little we know about the Harper government’s many international trade deals is cause for grave concern.

Canada , Chine , litiges investisseurs-état , TPP , UE

Corporate power unbound : investor-state arbitration of IP monopolies on medicines - Eli Lilly v. Canada and the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement

SSRN | 1er-oct-2015

Despite the deep irony of free trade agreements being subverted to codify and extend anti-competitive monopoly rights the joining of enhanced intellectual property rights (IPRs) and strengthened investor rights is creating a wild-west opportunity for unbounded corporate power.

litiges investisseurs-état , médicaments , propriété intellectuelle , TPP

Gordon Campbell on TPP dairy , and investor-state disputes

Scoop | 28-sep-2015

Gordon Campbell on New Zealand’s TPP done deal on dairy, and on investor-state disputes

agriculture | paysans | alimentation , Canada , litiges investisseurs-état , Nouvelle-Zélande , souvraineté | démocratie , TPP

Trans-Pacific Partnership : Renegotiating NAFTA by the back door

rabble.ca | 23-sep-2015

For years, trade and justice activists have proposed renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to address some of the deal’s most damaging features : for example, by removing the anti-democratic investor-state dispute settlement provisions of Chapter 11, linking trade benefits to genuine protections for human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent-wide strategy for auto investment and production.

ALÉNA , Canada , litiges investisseurs-état , TPP , travail | droits des travailleurs

TPPA could empower rejected foreign investors in legal challenges

| 23-sep-2015

Under a Trans Pacific Partnership deal, foreign investors in New Zealand could be able to take international legal action against a government decision such as that which rejected a Chinese company’s bid for Lochinver Station, says an Auckland Law School senior lecturer.

investissement | TBI , litiges investisseurs-état , Nouvelle-Zélande , TPP