Obama notifies Congress of intention to sign TPP agreement

Obama notifies Congress of intention to sign TPP agreement

Source:Xinhua Published: 2015-11-6 8:58:46
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/951183.shtml

US President Barack Obama on Thursday notified Congress that he intended to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), hours after the long-awaited text of the trade deal was released.

The release of the text came exactly one month after trade ministers of the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries reached an agreement on the TPP in Atlanta, the US state of Georgia.

That would kick off a 90-day congressional review period that must elapse before the president formally signs the trade agreement, according to the trade promotion authority (TPA) legislation passed earlier this year.

In a letter sent to the Congress, Obama said he was pleased to notify lawmakers of his intention to enter into the TPP agreement.

The TPP will generate export opportunities, help create jobs in the United States, and help American consumers save money while offering them more choices, Obama said in the letter.

While the Obama administration has touted the Pacific trade deal as a means to create jobs and write the rules of international trade, labor unions, environmental groups, consumer and heath care organizations across the country have come out against it out of various concerns.

"From what we have reviewed so far, we are deeply disappointed that our policy recommendations and those of our trade reform allies in the environmental, consumer, public heath, global development and business sectors were largely ignored," powerful union AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said Thursday.

"The hardworking families of the AFL-CIO will join with our allies to defeat the TPP," he said in a statement.

The newly-elected Speaker of the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, reserved judgment, citing that he hadn't read the text of the agreement.

"I don't know the answer to what my position is on a trade agreement I have not even yet read, because we just got it this morning," Ryan said Thursday at a press briefing.

"We have a lot of work to do to review this agreement. And we do not rubber-stamp anything around here, let alone trade agreements," he said.

Before the release of the text, House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin said, "The upcoming 90-day period was established to facilitate an intensive and informed debate over the merits of TPP as negotiated, as well as the necessity for any modifications to the agreement, before the agreement is signed."

"We are organizing a series of in-depth public hearings to assess the merits of the proposed agreement, zeroing in on those issues that are of particular importance or concern to us and our fellow Democratic colleagues," Levin said in a statement on Wednesday.

The earliest date for a final TPP vote in US Congress would be in March 2016 when US presidential election heats up, according to trade experts.

It's unclear whether the Obama administration could get enough votes to pass the controversial trade deal.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said last month that she's "not in favor of" the TPP deal, noting that she doesn't believe the deal will meet her "high bar" for creating good American jobs, raising wages and advancing national security.

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Comment by Maria De Wind on November 7, 2015 at 1:59pm

Here is what Bernie Sanders says the TTP will do for the United States and beyond. Folks, this may be the most important political moment in our history. Pay attention and start making waves. THE TRANS-PACIFIC TRADE (TPP) AGREEMENT MUST BE DEFEATED
10 Ways that TPP would hurt Working Families
by Senator Bernie Sander

http://www.sanders.senate.gov/download/the-trans-pacific-trade-tpp-...

Comment by Maria De Wind on November 7, 2015 at 1:57pm

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-the-trans-pacific.fb49?source...

Stop The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

Petition by Peter Becker

To be delivered to The United States House of Representatives and The United States Senate

We urge Congress to vote no on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). An agreement like the TPP should be negotiated in the full light of day. America must reserve the right to determine our own consumer, health, safety, labor, privacy, and environmental regulations. Do not surrender our rights to trans-national corporations.
There are currently 29,479 signatures. NEW goal - We need 30,000 signatures!
Comment by DTOM on November 7, 2015 at 5:41am

Via: http://www.mfat.govt.nz/Treaties-and-International-Law/01-Treaties-...

New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade.

Treaties and International Law

 

Text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership

The text of the Agreement was released by TPP Parties on 5 November 2015 and can be accessed by chapter below. The text will continue to undergo legal review and will be translated into French and Spanish language versions prior to signature.

 

Zip file of all 30 Chapters (excluding Annexes) [ZIP, 3.15MB]

Comment by DTOM on November 7, 2015 at 5:40am

Trans-Pacific Partnership Full Text Released

TheAmazingYeti
posted on Nov, 5 2015 @ 07:57 AM
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1091293/pg1


New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has the text here I haven't started digging into yet but I woke and and found this posted online and wanted to get it on ATS ASAP!!

Some interesting things so far....



Each Party shall provide procedures... that enable a copyright owner that has made a legally sufficient claim of copyright infringement to obtain expeditiously from an Internet Service Provider information in the provider’s possession identifying the alleged infringer, in cases in which that information is sought for the purpose of protecting or enforcing that copyright.






An Internet Service Provider that removes or disables access to material in good faith under subparagraph (a) shall be exempt from any liability for having done so,

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