Replies to post #215179 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

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from Steph's 2nd link, Dean Baker .. "Anyhow, Krugman is on the money in his assessment of the impact of the TPP on trade. But the point is that the TPP is not really about trade, it's about changing the regulatory process in ways that would almost certainly be opposed by the people in most of the countries included in the deal."
http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/paul-krugman-and-tpp
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and the bits from the comments you got .. say this one ..

"“This really is a deal that’s being negotiated by corporations for corporations and any
benefit it provides to the bulk of the population of this country will be purely incidental.”"

seems, roughly anyway, to fit my impression of the gist of what was happening, which i mentioned here ..

"TPP negotiations: The US is arguing corporate interest, longer patents and easier exports two aims .. for others
as Australia, the minnows, so to speak, major sticking points are public policy sovereign interest concerns"
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See also:

WikiLeaks publishes secret draft chapter of Trans-Pacific Partnership
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Planet hope - India: the generic drug war [.. and ..] Peril in the Pacific: No to the TPP
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=92734640

In a simple sense, the TPP appears to be a trade strategy to contain a growing Chinese economic
influence that threatens regional political order dominated and governed by the United States.
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.. after reading the new stuff just now, it still seems to me .. US 'corporate/export interest' vs 'sovereign right of smaller countries to make their own public interest public policy' .. though just now there is a feel of a US sole hovering over .. lol .. the fact that the US didn't conclude the deal as early as they wanted to gives some hope to the hope the final deal will be fairer to all concerned than it might have been if the US fulfilled their original desires .. hope they end with a deal fairly reasonable for all countries concerned ..

ps: arizona, so sorry for the delete/restore .. there was just one tiny one sentence mess
up i ended up thinking better fixed this way than by 'too late to edit' correction to my own ..