[x-pubpol] "A Corporate Trojan Horse': Obama Pushes Secretive TPP Trade Pact, Would Rewrite Swath of U.S. Laws

[Joly MacFie]

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Pushes Secretive TPPTrade Pact, Would Rewrite Swath of U.S. Laws
Oct 4 2013
<http://www.democracynow.org/2013/10/4/a_corporate_trojan_horse_obama_pushes
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As the federal government shutdown continues, Secretary of State John Kerry
heads to Asia for secret talks on a sweeping new trade deal, the
Trans-Pacific Partnership. The TPP is often referred to by critics as
"NAFTA on steroids," and would establish a free trade zone that would
stretch from Vietnam to Chile, encompassing 800 million people — about a
third of world trade and nearly 40 percent of the global economy. While the
text of the treaty has been largely negotiated behind closed doors and,
until June, kept secret from Congress, more than 600 corporate advisers
reportedly have access to the measure, including employees of Halliburton
and Monsanto. "This is not mainly about trade," says Lori Wallach, director
of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. "It is a corporate Trojan horse.
The agreement has 29 chapters, and only five of them have to do with trade.
The other 24 chapters either handcuff our domestic governments, limiting
food safety, environmental standards, financial regulation, energy and
climate policy, or establishing new powers for corporations."

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