Anonymous ID: 74994c March 28, 2019, 8:42 p.m. No.5957089   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7142 >>7288 >>7438

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TPP11

the Integral Treaty and "Progressive" of the Trans-Pacific Partnership

FIRST LIE: this is a "free trade" treaty

SECOND LIE: those who oppose this treaty are "protectionist"

THIRD LIE: TPP-11 does not restrict our democracy

FOURTH LIE: the new international courts are going to be "independent"

FIFTH LIE: the TPP-11 opens the horizon in economic matters

SIXTH LIE: TPP-11 is "one step ahead", and natural, in our development

SEVENTH LIE: TPP-11 is a "transparent" treaty

 

"The TPP-11 is a treaty that assures corporations continue to operate in the future in the same way they have done so far, no matter what, whatever the cost. And especially: think what most of our fellow citizens think. "

 

"Corporations are going to be able to take States to the new type of court whenever, according to them, they are affected by their reasonable expectations of return." They can even force disputes to be settled in this type of court instead of traditional ones, such as those of the World Bank or the United Nations. "

 

"Such a treaty makes it extremely difficult to do anything about our (very profitable) market failures, our lack of competition, our fraud with respect to the misappropriation of natural resource rents, our inefficiency wages, our education destined for to play privileges. "

 

 

https://ciperchile.cl/2019/03/26/el-tpp-11-y-sus-siete-mentiras-de-democracia-protegida-a-corporaciones-protegidas/

Anonymous ID: 74994c March 28, 2019, 8:47 p.m. No.5957142   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7144

>>5957089

3/26/19

The keys to understanding TPP11

Although it takes the TPP provisions as a basis, the CPTPP or TPP11 has some differences. The most relevant: 20 provisions that, with the departure from the US, were left "suspended".

 

In 2005, Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore signed the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement, which would enter into force in 2006. As of 2008, more countries joined: Australia, Canada, the United States, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru and Vietnam completed the 12 signatory countries, which later formed the Trans-Pacific Economic Cooperation Agreement (TPP, for its acronym in English). That until 2017, when Donald Trump decided to withdraw the United States from the treaty.

 

It was then when the 11 remaining countries "rescued" the content of the agreement and began to negotiate the Integral and Progressive Treaty of Trans-Pacific Partnership ( CPTPP ), also known as TPP11, to differentiate it from the previous TPP12.

 

The bilateral director of Direcon and chief negotiator of TPP11, Felipe Lopeandía , explains the current situation of the agreement, signed in Santiago on March 8, 2018, but that must be ratified by Congress, which he joined at the end of October 2018. Since that date it was reviewed and approved by the Foreign Affairs and Finance Commissions. During March, the agreement was also discussed by the Agriculture and Labor Commissions.

 

"After having been approached by these two commissions, last week he went to the chamber of the Chamber [of Deputies], his discussion began in the room last Wednesday [March 20] and, as a result of this week is district , the discussion in the room is resumed next week, "details Lopeandía in an interview with PAUTA Bloomberg .

 

Lopeandía relates that the negotiation of the TPP was very complex, with many participating countries, with different economic and regulatory realities, and with complex proposals, especially by the United States. The negotiations, in fact, extended from the beginning of 2010 to the end of 2015.

 

Suspicions

 

The complexity of the negotiation of the TPP would explain, in Lopeandía's opinion, many of the concerns that the TPP11 now generates, especially regarding intellectual property issues, although it is quick to clarify that, although the TPP11 includes part of the contents of the TPP12 , leaves 20 provisions unapplied, 11 of which have to do with intellectual property, pharmaceutical patents and copyright on the internet. "I think there were many of those elements of suspicion or doubts about the content of this agreement," he says.

 

Another element that has generated doubts, recognizes Lopeandía, is an obligation that is in the CPTPP, but that had already been acquired by Chile with the ratification of the agreement UPOV 91 in 2011, which protects new plant varieties. Although the regulations for their full application have not been generated, it is a norm that is already ratified by Congress and, therefore, TPP11 does not change anything in this regard, he explains.

 

The rule, he says, refers to new varieties and plant products, achieved through research and innovation, and does not affect the country's plant heritage, for example the original seeds in the hands of small communities, emphasizes Lopeandía.

 

"Notwithstanding that Chile already has bilateral agreements with all the member countries of this agreement, the tariff benefits for Chile are very significant," says Lopeandía, who explains that they include nearly 3,000 new tariff preferences, Chilean export products that go to access with better conditions to markets such as Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Canada and Mexico, mainly from the agricultural, agroindustrial, forestry and fishing sectors.

 

Lopeandía stresses the importance of the approval of the agreement, since it is in force for the seven countries that have already approved it since December 30, 2018. Chilean producers are at a disadvantage compared to those of countries that have already ratified the treaty.

Anonymous ID: 74994c March 28, 2019, 8:48 p.m. No.5957144   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7510 >>7527

>>5957142

 

The importance of the United States

 

"The departure of the United States from the TPP was a sensitive and complex moment of the process … For all countries as a whole, the exit from the United States had some kind of impact," Lopeandía admits, although he says that for Chile it was less, given the free trade agreement between both countries.

 

Lopeandía highlights, in any case, the conviction and the political decision taken by the remaining 11 members to move forward the TPP11.

 

The bilateral director of Direcon says that in the text there is no express reference to the return of the United States to the treaty, and recognizes that a subject that has been discussed is what happens with the 20 provisions that were suspended in case the United States returned. The text is very clear, he says: for these provisions to become effective again, first of all, the agreement of the 11 countries is required. A second point, in the case of Chile, is the approval of Congress of this eventual agreement to reincorporate the rules suspended. "We introduce two padlocks, or two elements that are important for security," he says.

 

Lopeandía affirms that he sees good disposition in the Congress to advance in the approval, and trusts that the agreement will be ratified in the short term. "We believe that the Congress will continue with the successful commercial policy that Chile has developed over the past 30 years," he says.

https://www.pauta.cl/economia/bloomberg/las-claves-para-entender-el-tpp11

Anonymous ID: 74994c March 28, 2019, 9 p.m. No.5957288   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>5957089

3/26/18

Chile. Reasons for rejecting TPP-11: Labor laws and rights

https://kaosenlared.net/chile-razones-para-rechazar-el-tpp-11-derechos-y-leyes-laborales/

 

3/25 Better without TPP-11

https://www.latercera.com/opinion/noticia/mejor-sin-tpp-11/585026/

 

March 20, 2019 B.C. targets Asian alternatives in diversification plan

Province pivots trade-mission efforts to Japan, South Korea as China uncertainty increases

 

B.C.'s latest trade mission to Asia appears to heed the advice of Asia-Pacific economic observers to diversify beyond the United States and China, its two largest trade partners.

 

Government officials have admitted that China will be skipped in the province’s trade mission to Japan and South Korea in part because of Ottawa’s strained relationship with Beijing following the arrest in December of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. CFO Meng Wanzhou. But they added that the pull factor from Japan – especially following the ratification of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP or TPP-11) – played just as big a role.

https://biv.com/article/2019/03/bc-targets-asian-alternatives-diversification-plan

Anonymous ID: 74994c March 28, 2019, 9:16 p.m. No.5957438   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7515 >>7609 >>7682

>>5957089

Fake Maga

Maga Coalition

TPP11 Coalition

 

“They’ve designed a deal they are determined to put into effect,” says Wendy Cutler, who spent three decades as a U.S. trade negotiator, including leading talks on the TPP. “They’ve gone through two traumatic episodes. There’s not much stomach for more,” says Cutler, now vice president of the Asia Society Policy Institute.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/29/united-states-wants-back-in-tpp-good-luck-with-that-trans-pacific-partnership-asia/

 

AFTER THE MIDTERMS: AUSTRALIA, THE UNITED STATES AND THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER

Mr Trump remains unpopular with the American people, however in the midterms he tightened his grip on the GOP. Republicans ran towards Trump, not away from him. Many who previously criticised or rejected the President, such as Senators Ted Cruz and Lindsay Graham, now embrace him. And several moderate Republicans lost office last week.

 

So Americans delivered a slap, not a punch, to Mr Trump. He was not submerged in a blue wave, but the water is now up to his knees.

 

The question is: how will this result affect a person like Mr Trump?

 

On the one hand, he might moderate, as George W. Bush did in the second half of his first term, when he realised that events weren’t proceedings as expected. The president may conclude that in order to maintain his reputation as a change agent, he needs to cooperate with Democrats on some areas such as infrastructure and emphasise the positives of the strong US economy rather than the negatives of immigration.

 

He may invite the adults back into the room – turning over more control of foreign policy to the experts, for example, by empowering Secretary Mattis.

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/after-midterms-australia-united-states-and-international-order

 

Congress needs NAFTA text by May 17 for vote this year: Paul Ryan

U.S. lawmakers must receive the final text of the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement by May 17 if the deal is to be voted on by Congress this year, Inside U.S. Trade is reporting.

 

House Speaker Paul Ryan laid down the deadline Thursday, as per conditions set out under the Trade Promotion Authority law.

 

Trade Promotion Authority, otherwise know as fast-track authority, renders the final Congressional vote on any new NAFTA deal negotiated into a yes-no vote, with no Congressional amendments allowed.

 

The current authority expires in July 2018. The White House asked in March for the TPA to be extended by three years – a request Congress has yet to authorize.

 

If a vote on NAFTA is not held this year, the expectation is that the file would be dealt with by Congress after the U.S. mid-term elections in November.

 

The deadline comes just hours after Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland met with top American lawmakers on Capitol Hill, including Ryan.

 

She also met with Kevin Brady, the chair of the House committee that oversees trade legislation.

 

They shared their view of the so-called fast-track law, which sets the rules for votes on trade deals.

 

Freeland said it was helpful to hear from the lawmakers who actually wrote and are responsible for implementing the U.S. rules.

 

Plenty of progress has been made this week and she said negotiators are closer to success – although the talks have been mostly seized with the issue of autos, giving little space to hard negotiations on other top files.

 

Discussions on areas including intellectual property, seasonal tariffs on produce and dairy have not yet occurred. Current American proposals in all three areas are considered potential ‘poison pills’ by Canada and Mexico.

 

A NAFTA deal cannot be reached without discussion in those areas, trade expert Laura Dawson told iPolitics in Ottawa. Dawson is executive director of the Wilson Centre’s Canada Institute.

 

Members of the Canadian Inter-Parliamentary Group will travel to Washington, D.C. next week to meet with Congressional leaders, senators and members of congress. The House international trade committee is also set to travel to the U.S. capital this month.

https://ipolitics.ca/2018/05/10/congress-needs-nafta-text-by-may-17-for-vote-this-year-ryan/

Anonymous ID: 74994c March 28, 2019, 9:23 p.m. No.5957515   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7528 >>7537 >>7547 >>7596

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Paul Ryan-backed super PAC supporting Cathy McMorris Rodgers in 2018 contest

 

FAKE MAGA CANDIDATES

 

National Republicans plan to throw a counterpunch in Washington’s 5th Congressional District, which has become a midterm bull’s-eye for energized Democrats.

 

The Congressional Leadership Fund, a political action committee able to raise unlimited cash and backed by House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan, announced this week it would open a field office in Eastern Washington. The office, one of 27 the organization has launched since the beginning of last year, will support Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, whose seat is the only one in Washington currently receiving support from the group. The move makes her the most high-profile GOP member to date to attract the Washington, D.C.-based committee’s attention.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/jan/06/paul-ryan-backed-super-pac-supporting-cathy-mcmorr/