Chile Threatens To Drop Out Of TPP Negotiations Due To Ridiculous US Demands About IP
from the backlash dept
You may remember that some officials in Chile recently began wondering what benefit they would get from agreeing to be a part of TPP. It seems that view is going even further. There was just another negotiating round and it appears (as we've expected, but don't know for sure because the US negotiators, led by Ron Kirk refuse to be even remotely transparent) that the US's strong position on IP is scaring off Chile. A high level government official is now saying that the country is considering pulling out of the TPP negotiations unless the US "significantly moderates its intellectual property demands." The article suggests that Chile is willing to move forward with much of the rest of the agreement, but the ridiculous USTR position on IP is giving it reason to be concerned.
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The US could do a lot more harm to others if they didn't do what they asked but now there are some options.
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Help make the video go viral for EVERYONE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SOokUdKYcM
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Also of use...
Infinite copies = literally worthless
anywayBack to the topic: http://tpp2012.com/
Helping this vid go viral would be a start
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Good One.
MAFIAA Lick My Corgi Dog's Butt Clean.
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And somehow China and Canada are painted in as if either is at the table but neither is although for different reasons. I'm not sure about the EU and Russia either.
For now I think the EU has their hands full with ACTA and deciding whether or not to flush that down the toilet on one hand and whether or not they'll need to foreclose on and repossess Greece.
As someone else has mentioned there are now bigger consumer and industrial markets than the United States so the clout the American government used to have just isn't there now.
Chile has been saying this for a while now. The demands for IP extremism coming from the United States are just too high. Perhaps even more telling is the remark that if they could get back to just the trade issues TPP would have been signed, sealed and delivered a long time ago. Again, the stumbling bloc is the American insistence on draconian IP laws and provisions.
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It's good that at least Chile isn't agreeing to those demands.
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