Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch on text of Trans-Pacific Partnership

The text of the is out — finally — and it's "worse than we thought," according to a Public Citizen analysis.

Among the lowlights, according to Public Citizen, are "New Rights for Fossil Fuel Corporations to Challenge Climate Protections"; "Constraints on Food Safety Provisions"; "Opportunities for Drug Firms to Contest Medicine Purchasing and Pricing Decisions"; and expansion of the controversial Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) regime that "elevat[es] individual foreign corporations to equal status with the 12 sovereign governments signing the deal."

Read the full analysis here. For prior discussion on this blog of ISDS, see here.

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