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Renamed TPP Signed, Without the IP Rules, Without the USA

posted by janrinok on Sunday March 11 2018, @01:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the life-goes-on dept.

dry writes:

The renamed TPP, the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership has been signed by 11 countries. https://globalnews.ca/news/4069924/tpp-trans-pacific-partnership-signing-canada/

Thankfully, Trump's withdrawal from the TPP allowed the Canadian people to persuade their government to push for removal of most of the contentious IP obligations that the US demanded, http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2017/11/rethinking-ip-in-the-tpp/. America is considering rejoining, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/us/politics/mnuchin-tpp-trans-pacific-partnership-trump.html

The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) will reduce tariffs in countries that together amount to more than 13 per cent of the global economy – a total of $10 trillion. With the United States, it would have represented 40 per cent.

Even without the United States, the deal will span a market of nearly 500 million people, making it one of the globe's three largest trade agreements, according to Chilean and Canadian trade statistics.

[...] Trump has also threatened to dump the North American Free Trade Agreement unless the other two members of the pact, Canada and Mexico, agree to provisions that Trump says would boost U.S. manufacturing and employment. He argues that the 1994 accord has caused the migration of jobs and factories southward to lower-cost Mexico.

[...] The 11 member countries are Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam.

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  • (Score: 1) by cocaine overdose on Sunday March 11 2018, @06:27AM (4 children)

    by cocaine overdose (6886) <cocaineoverdose@protonmail.com> on Sunday March 11 2018, @06:27AM (#650797) Homepage Journal
    Who is E.F

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @06:46AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @06:46AM (#650804)

    https://soylentnews.org/~Ethanol-fueled/ [soylentnews.org]

    • (Score: 1) by cocaine overdose on Sunday March 11 2018, @07:35AM (1 child)

      by cocaine overdose (6886) <cocaineoverdose@protonmail.com> on Sunday March 11 2018, @07:35AM (#650820) Homepage Journal

      I see the resemblance. Albeit, I'd like to think my jew-hating, gun-loving, U S A, U S A, U S A is a bit more nuanced than "Kickin' ass, taking names, and textually stomping whining Liberals and statist bootlickers."

      What does a man gain from having two accounts anyway? Unless I'm E.F and I'm raising a sockpuppet army to spread the Good Word TM of the right party. Maybe it's all one big ruse to convert followers via memetic warfare. Join the hivemind or perish, commie scum. Et al.

      Maybe that one rambling "philosopher" slipped his semen into my mouth when I was sleeping, and now I have syphilis encephalitis. My brain's so swollen I can't even remember that I used to post under a different handle. But then how would you explain the recent post by EF? Perhaps I've also split personalities. What would happen if the two maniacs got a hold of the other? Would it be me just replying to myself for hours on end? Or would I get no reply at all, because the other personality isn't there to reply. Would I die? I'm sure it would be extremely painful.

      • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday March 11 2018, @08:30AM

        by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday March 11 2018, @08:30AM (#650841) Homepage

        Your posts are good, and definitely in the spirit. I can certainly see the need for your emergence. But talking a big game up front, the crowd is expecting you to succeed where I failed. Bang out some Magnum Opera or be just another Good Discussion Poster™.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @02:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @02:51PM (#650926)

    That is exactly what a bot would say!