US President-elect Trump has promised to abandon the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal as soon as he takes office. Trump has promised to leave the TPP, which took the Obama administration seven years to negotiate, and instead “negotiate fair bilateral trade deals that bring jobs and industry back on to American shores.”
The TPP is
Ostensibly, Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provisions in international trade agreements create a necessary judicial mechanism which empowers international investors to bring actions against host states who act arbitrarily, to the detriment of the international investment. ISDS has, however, long been criticized as a non-transparent, privately run judicial system through which wealthy investment entities can extract
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a trade agreement between 12 Pacific Rim countries (Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, United States, and Vietnam), which among other things, contains measures to lower trade barriers such as tariffs.
For more information about the TPP see our previous post,
After many years of negotiations, the 12 countries making up the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) (Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, United States, and Vietnam) finally reached a trade agreement on October 4, 2015. Note that the