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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)

Top US trade official opposition to ISDS in NAFTA undermines case for ISDS in TPP-11
AFTINET | 30-Oct-2017
US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said that the US wants to opt out of ISDS in NAFTA, because of the risk and costs of US governments being sued by foreign corporations, and despite corporate lobby groups pushing to retain ISDS.
CPTPP , investor-state disputes | ISDS , NAFTA | USMCA , US
La negociación sobre Reglas para la Facilitación Multilateral de las Inversiones: apuntes para la discusión
TNI | 11-Jul-2017
En lugar de abrir la discusión sobre qué inversiones y para qué, la agenda de facilitación restringiría as capacidades de los gobiernos de regular la inversión extranjera.
CPTPP , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , TTIP
Tratados de Libre Comercio y soberanía alimentaria
GRAIN | 9-Jun-2017
Hoy los TLCs vuelven con fuerza a abalanzarse sobre nuestros bienes comunes con mecanismos cada vez más sofisticados e ilegítimos. Por eso dedicamos este Vistazo a presentar las viejas y nuevas amenazas que representan compartiendo los contenidos del Boletín Nyéleni N.º 29 dedicado íntegramente a esta temática.
agriculture | farmers | food , CPTPP , investor-state disputes | ISDS , TTIP
El TLCAN 2.0 es acerca del control, no del libre comercio
El Financiero | 14-Apr-2017
Un tema que no ha sido analizado a profundidad son las nuevas disposiciones que serán agregadas al texto del tratado en materia de medio ambiente, laboral, sindical, propiedad intelectual, entre otros.
CPTPP , intellectual property , investor-state disputes | ISDS , NAFTA | USMCA
The past, present and future of international investment arbitration in Thailand
SSRN | 2-Mar-2017
This paper offers the first detailed English-language analysis of international investment arbitration law and practice in Thailand.
CPTPP , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , ISDS reform , Thailand
Australia’s march towards corporatocracy
The Conversation | 20-Feb-2017
While consultancies, political donations, secondments and staff movements magnify corporate influence over government, an equally sinister trend is playing out in the world of multinational corporations.
Australia , corporate interests , CPTPP , finance | banking | taxes , investor-state disputes | ISDS
Why are my highly educated friends so ignorant about trade?
Local Futures Blog | 16-Feb-2017
Local Futures’ Isabel Marlens discusses why many people know so little about trade issues, and what can be done about it.
corporate interests , CPTPP , investor-state disputes | ISDS , labour | workers’ rights , regulation , sovereignty | democracy
Environmentalists earn TPP victory as wins will be rare under Trump
Observer | 26-Jan-2017
The TransCanada lawsuit became virtually meaningless as Trump signed an executive order to continue construction of the Keystone XL
CPTPP , energy , environment , investor-state disputes | ISDS , US
Will the RCEP morph into another TPP?
Third World Resurgence | 12-Jan-2017
In highlighting that the drafts of many of its key chapters are substantially similar to those of the TPP, Sanya Reid Smith warns that the RCEP may end up as a replica of the former.
CPTPP , intellectual property , investor-state disputes | ISDS , RCEP
Lessons to learn from the demise of the TPP
The Wire | 9-Jan-2017
With the imminent demise of the Tran-Pacific Partnership Agreement almost certain, there are many lessons to be learnt from the fraudulent free trade deal.
CPTPP , intellectual property , investor-state disputes | ISDS