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Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Reached – Impacts on WOMEN
in the Region??
By JACKIE CALMES - OCT. 5, 2015
ATLANTA — The United States and 11 other
Pacific Rim nations on Monday agreed to the largest regional trade accord in
history, a potentially precedent-setting model for global commerce and worker
standards that would tie together 40 percent of the world’s economy, from
Canada and Chile to Japan and Australia.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership still faces
months of debate in Congress. But the accord is a product of nearly eight years
of negotiations.
The Pacific accord would phase out
thousands of import tariffs as well as other barriers to international trade.
It also would establish uniform rules on corporations’ intellectual property,
open the Internet even in communist Vietnam and crack down on wildlife
trafficking and environmental abuses.
Several potentially deal-breaking disputes
kept the ministers talking through the weekend and forced them repeatedly to
reschedule the promised Sunday announcement of the deal into the evening and
beyond. Final compromises covered commercial protections for drug makers’
advanced medicines, more open markets for dairy products and sugar, and a slow
phase-out — over two to three decades — of the tariffs on Japan’s autos sold in
North America.
Yet the trade agreement almost certainly
will encounter stiff opposition……..
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TRANS-PACIFIC WOMEN VS. TRANS-PACIFIC CORPORATOCRACY - COMPOUNDS INEQUALITY
At a time when governments, civil society organisations and the larger international community are negotiating a new sustainable development agenda, another binding, global, agreement is being negotiated behind closed doors. Learn more about the impact this trade agreement can have on the women in the region.
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