So, TPP is not going to happen.

[palou]

sethnintendo said:

palou said:

 

Contreversy arouse around the secrecy of the negociations (now broken: the full content is available online), and a clause that would permit corporations to open legal files against countries.

 

So we can now view what the trade agreement was going to be?  The whole secrecy is what killed it in the first place for most USA citizens.  I'd have to get a layman's term report of the trade deal because I'm sure they use language in it to describe shit that would make the average person wonder what the fuck they are talking about or trying to agree on.

For the clauses, what I, personnaly, consider to be the worst (note: I suuport it, so it might be different for others), is that US pharmaceutic companies could prevent generics being put on the market for quite some time after its creation (30 years, I think, for drugs? I'm don't remember the exact numbers, but medication stays under copyright laws for quite some time in the US.)

I don't really see any major negative impacts for the US, though, seeing as the deal imposes laws already in application in the US worldwide.