Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)
Today, 13 November 2013, WikiLeaks released the secret
negotiated draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership)
Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The TPP is the largest-ever
economic treaty, encompassing nations representing more than 40 per cent
of the world’s GDP. The WikiLeaks release of the text comes ahead of
the decisive TPP Chief Negotiators summit in Salt Lake City, Utah, on
19-24 November 2013. The chapter published by WikiLeaks is perhaps the
most controversial chapter of the TPP due to its wide-ranging effects on
medicines, publishers, internet services, civil liberties and
biological patents. Significantly, the released text includes the
negotiation positions and disagreements between all 12 prospective
member states.
The TPP is the forerunner to the equally secret US-EU
pact TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership), for which
President Obama initiated US-EU negotiations in January 2013. Together,
the TPP and TTIP will cover more than 60 per cent of global GDP. Read full press release here
http://wikileaks.org/tpp/
