Food Chain Radio Michael Olson

Urban Farming Agriculturalist

TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP

Will the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s free trade be fair trade?

Guest: Devon G. Pena, PhD, Professor of Anthropology, Ethnic and Environmental Studies, University of Washington, and Founder and President of the Acequia Institute

This Poll is closed

Who will benefit from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement?

None of the above

All of the above

Owners of patents, copyrights, and other intellectual property

Businesses of countries signing the TPP Agreement

Citizens of countries signing the TPP Agreement

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30%

20%

20%

30%

Negotiated in secret by nations of the Pacific, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement will, they say, bring free trade to all. But when Wiki dumped the docs, all were left to wonder.

Food Chain Radio host Michael Olson: Trans-Pacific Partnership – Will the TPP’s free trade be fair trade?

The Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement is a proposed expansion of a 2005 trade agreement between Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore.  The proposed expansion adds 8 more nations from around the Pacific representing over 40 percent of the world’s GDP.

The stated objectives of the TPP agreement include managing trade, promoting growth, and integrating economies into regional partnerships.  All of this sounded great, until Wiki dumped the docs on TPP’s secret Intellectual Property Rights Chapter.  This chapter is perhaps the most controversial of the TPP agreement due to its proposed governance of internet services, biological patents, civil liberties, medicines and publishing.

Given the  secrecy with which the Agreement is being negotiated, and the control apparently being divided up over economically significant sectors of the international economy, some are beginning to wonder…

Will the TPP’s free trade be fair trade?

Tune in here, for the syndicated Food Chain Radio Show #971 Live on June 14, 2014 Saturday 9AM Pacific