Trade agreements like TiSA, TPP and TTIP will sideline national laws, Wikileaks says

[Jefferson23]

June 5, 2015

Wikileaks has warned that governments negotiating a far-reaching global service agreement are 'surrendering a large part of their global sovereignty' and exacerbating the social inequality of poorer countries in the process.

The Trade in Services Agreement exposed in a 17 document dump by Wikileaks on Thursday relates to ongoing negotiations to lock market liberalisations into global law.

If a country like China wanted to join, it would have to scrap all discriminatory practices against foreign firms – so discrimination against a foreign firm opening a hospital in China would be banned, for example.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/trade-agreements-like-tisa-tpp-and-ttip-will-sideline-national-laws-wikileaks-says-10299907.html

[John_Doe80004]

1. The tpp will just expand on

The already existing laws codified in the WTO agreements. We are already being sued for our food labelling regulations by Canada and mexico in the world court. It doesn't take a genius to see this will only increase under tpp.

[Jefferson23]

2. Yes, it's not rocket science to see the harm, the problem is stopping it.

Welcome to DU, btw.

[John_Doe80004]

3. Thanks for the welcome

My personal belief is that it has progressed to far and that corporate interests, lobbyist's, and big money are so deeply entrenched in the political process and so deeply in control now that any attempts to rise up and even peacefully try to regain control of the government in an effort to get them to start working for the benefit of the country and people again will only be met with militarized force and they will swat any kind of million citizen march down like a bunch of flies. This is the unfortunate reality of today and has been predicted in many books and movie's over the years. I'm very disappointed to see that this wasn't figures of literary imagine but a harbinger of what was to come.

[Jefferson23]

4. I reject that yet I understand to a degree why that seems possible to you.

Control is often more elusive than the elite imagine it is and I remain hopeful that
this model they're relying on is what it is..unsustainable. By one means or another,
it will fall apart on them..unfortunately not likely without more people suffering as a
result before we get there.