Available now: New book No Ordinary Deal exposes threats of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)
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Yesterday, the fourth round of Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations started in Auckland, New Zealand.
While we've been promised that a TPP deal will comprise a new 21st century model for trade agreements, unfortunatley it is looking a lot like NAFTA so far. Negotiators in New Zealand are working from a text that dates back to the Bush era and provides foreign investors new protections that promote offshoring and expose our environmental and health laws to attack.
If you don't know about the TPP, you need to. But that is no easy feat because negotiations are occurring behind closed doors and the draft texts are being kept secret.
Now there's a new book -- No Ordinary Deal -- that explains what is at stake with the TPP. It's a compilation edited by Jane Kelsey, Professor of Law at the University of Auckland, with chapters contributed by folks from Australia, New Zealand, and Chile -- and Global Trade Watch's own Lori Wallach and Todd Tucker. No Ordinary Deal exposes the contradictions of locking our countries even deeper into a neoliberal model of financial deregulation, extreme foreign investor rights, extended patent protections limiting access to affordable medicines, and corporatized food production -- even as this old model has come under growing attack in the United States and abroad.
The book will be distributed in the United States in early 2011, but we have limited early copies. Get your copy of No Ordinary Deal at Global Trade Watch's online store.
In Solidarity,
James Ploeser
Senior Field Organizer, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch