The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is led by the US along with 11 Pacific Rim countries. While negotiations were completed last February 2016, the TPPA has not yet been ratified. It poses grave threats to national sovereignty and people’s rights while clearly designed to boost corporate profit and control.
European protests condemn unfair ‘trade’ deals
With the veil of secrecy lifted a little more on the strictly secret talks of the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) after Wikileaks published large chunks of negotiating text, delegations gathered for negotiations of the trade deal this week in Geneva face some noisy opposition.