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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.

Photo: Blink O’Fanaye / CC BY-NC 2.0

(March 2020)

Groups urge U.S. Congress to reject TPP over environmental concerns
Reuters | 6-Jun-2016
More than 450 groups on Monday called on Congress to reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) if it comes up for a vote this fall, saying the trade deal would allow fossil fuel companies to contest U.S. environmental rules in extrajudicial tribunals.
CPTPP , environment , investor-state disputes | ISDS , TTIP , US
Emails show TPP ’collusion’ between big banks & Obama administration
Common Dreams | 30-May-2016
Emails obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) show U.S. Trade Rep. Michael Froman discussing TPP with Goldman Sachs lobbyists
CPTPP , finance | banking | taxes , investor-state disputes | ISDS , US
New analysis shows ’frivolous’ corporate sovereignty suits increasingly used to deter regulation rather than win compensation
Tech Dirt | 1-Apr-2016
Why would investors continue to file these highly costly cases, if the expected success rate is so low?
CPTPP , investor-state disputes | ISDS , TTIP
CETA announcement shows it’s possible to fix trade deals
Huffington Post | 4-Mar-2016
Corporations can still sue governments over public policy decisions they don’t like but the real lesson from the ISDS reforms, in fact, is that public opposition and political mobilization can change things.
Canada , CPTPP , EU , investor-state disputes | ISDS , ISDS reform
The real danger in TPP
CNN | 22-Feb-2016
This threat to the law and to democratic processes has no place in a 21st century trade agreement and should be removed before these agreements can be seriously considered.
CPTPP , environment , investor-state disputes | ISDS
TPP may bankrupt Indonesia, activists say
The Jakarta Post | 16-Feb-2016
Indonesia could fall into bankruptcy if the biggest market in Southeast Asia join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which would allow investors to sue the government.
CPTPP , Indonesia , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Chile: Las críticas al TPP y la respuesta de la sociedad civil a Heraldo Muñoz
The Clinic | 12-Feb-2016
El domingo pasado el canciller, Heraldo Muñoz, tras firmar el Acuerdo de Asociación Transpacífico, que debe ser ratificado por el Parlamento, argumentó que las críticas se debían a desinformación. La organización civil, Chile mejor sin TPP, responde al secretario de Estado y refuta sus afirmaciones sobre los beneficios que traerá para el país el cuestionado acuerdo comercial.
Chile , CPTPP , indigenous peoples , investor-state disputes | ISDS , medicines
El TPP: la verdad entre bastidores
El Dínamo | 12-Feb-2016
Chile lo firmó en Nueva Zelanda la semana pasada. Con ello la polémica se abre y amenaza ser una bola de fuego. Para unos es la ignominia, para otros, la salvación, como lo ha dicho la Cancillería chilena. 
Chile , CPTPP , intellectual property , investor-state disputes | ISDS
For Canadian innovators, will TPP mean protection – or colonialism?
The Globe and Mail | 1-Feb-2016
Despite Canada’s 14 new free-trade deals, Canada posted record trade deficits and shrinking exports throughout 2015 as prices for tangible commodities fell.
Canada , CPTPP , intellectual property , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Las papas decimos no al TPP
Equipo Jackson | 27-Jan-2016
¿Qué es el TPP? explicado con papas, kiwis y berenjenas
Chile , CPTPP , investor-state disputes | ISDS , video