Does Obama want to get rid of the "Buy American" provisions of the Trans-Pacific Pact Trade Deal?

[matmar]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/23/trans-pacific-partnership-ron-wyden_n_1540984.html

WTF Obama?

[Poll_Blind]

1. .

PB

[pampango]

2. "Buy American" provisions are already eliminated with 40 countries by the Agreement on Government

Procurement which went into force in 1996 and 13 other countries with which we have FTA's.

"The concept and the principle is based on openness, transparency and non-discrimination, which apply to party countries to the benefit to both country and country's suppliers in bilateral or plurilateral."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreement_on_Government_Procurement

Members of the Agreement are: Armenia, Canada, European Union (27 countries), Iceland, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Liechtenstein, Norway, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan and the United States.

http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/gproc_e/memobs_e.htm

We already have FTA's (and no "Buy American provisions&quot with Australia, Chile, Peru and Singapore among the 8 other countries that are part of the proposed TPP. That leaves New Zealand, Vietnam, Brunei and Malaysia as the new countries that would covered by the "openness, transparency and non-discrimination" of government procurement.