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TPPA Campaign: don’t trade away vital social policies

The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) is a proposed new regional free trade agreement between the US, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, Peru and Vietnam, building on the bilateral Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) the US has with five of these countries, including Australia.

Official negotiations begin in Melbourne on 15th March 2010.

This means that all of the issues we kept out or limited in the US–Australia FTA will be up for negotiation again. We know from submissions made by US business groups that they want to use the negotiations to obtain more changes in the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, media content rules and labelling of genetically engineered food. And there will be strong pressure for Australia to accept an investor-state complaints process, because four of the other free trade agreements include this process.

We are campaigning to prevent these health, cultural and environmental policies from being traded away.

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