{"id":11150,"date":"2015-08-17T07:53:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T12:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11150"},"modified":"2015-08-17T07:53:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T12:53:56","slug":"where-the-tpp-could-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11150","title":{"rendered":"Where the TPP Could Lose"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where the TPP Could Lose<\/a><\/h3>\n

After years of secret negotiations and silence in the\u00a0media<\/a>, the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) has risen to headline news. Now that Congress has voted to give President Obama \u201cfast-track\u201d\u00a0trade promotion authority<\/a>\u00a0to push the deal through the House and Senate with limited debate and no amendments, efforts to finalize the agreement among member countries are proceeding in earnest.<\/p>\n

But even if negotiators can reach a final accord, which is far from certain, the pact must still be approved by other national legislatures. And here, the United States is not the only country we should be watching. In Chile, where the administration of President Michelle Bachelet has moved forward with the TPP negotiation process, opposition is strong in the legislature. Even Bachelet\u2019s minister of foreign affairs has indicated that Chile won\u2019t sign the agreement if the TPP doesn\u2019t meet certain criteria.<\/p>\n

The Chilean controversy over the TPP highlights some of the biggest problems with the agreement \u2014 for working people in Chile, the United States, and around the world \u2014 and it makes plain the false promises the Obama administration used to push Democrats to support fast track.<\/p>\n

That a\u00a0no vote<\/a>\u00a0from Chile might unravel the agreement as a whole \u2014 or inspire other legislatures to follow suit \u2014 may be wishful thinking. But growing opposition in that country is a reminder of what\u2019s at stake and why it\u2019s so important for national legislators \u2014 in the United States and abroad \u2014 to take a stand against bad trade deals. And it highlights the power that organized citizens have to hold politicians accountable and make the TPP vulnerable.<\/p>\n

Corporate Boondoggle<\/strong><\/p>\n

The TPP would unite 12 Pacific Rim countries \u2014 Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam \u2014 in an agreement so big it would account for 40 percent of the global economy.<\/p>\n

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