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Many in Japan fighting TPP as well. (Original Post) madfloridian May 2015 OP
Is this the only country? aspirant May 2015 #1
Found this from Australia's Sunday Morning Herald madfloridian May 2015 #2
The diameter of the Pacific Rim aspirant May 2015 #3
Vietnam govt leaders are for TPP salimbag May 2015 #4

madfloridian

(88,117 posts)
2. Found this from Australia's Sunday Morning Herald
Mon May 18, 2015, 08:15 PM
May 2015
Australians may pay the price in Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement

This is from 2013.

Australians could pay more for drugs and medicines, movies, computer games and software, and be placed under surveillance as part of a US-led crackdown on internet piracy, according to details of secret trade negotiations exposed by WikiLeaks.

A leaked draft of a controversial chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement reveals the negotiating positions of 12 countries including Australia on copyright, patents and other intellectual property issues, with a heavy focus on enforcement measures against internet piracy.

Intellectual property experts are critical of the draft treaty, which they say would help the multinational movie and music industries, software companies and pharmaceutical manufacturers to maintain and increase prices by reinforcing the rights of copyright and patent owners, clamping down on online piracy, and raising obstacles to the introduction of generic drugs and medicines.

The leaked treaty text also reveals new US and Japanese proposals designed to enhance the ability of pharmaceutical manufacturers to extend and widen their patents on drugs and medicines.

Proposals with the potential to impact significantly on Australia's Pharmaceuticals Benefits Scheme include a requirement that patents be available for new uses of existing drugs, effectively allowing ''evergreening'' of existing patents; compensation to companies for delays in the grant or extension of patents; and measures to ensure data exclusivity to allow companies to prevent competitors, specifically manufacturers of generic medicines, from using past clinical safety and efficacy data to support approval of new products.


I also found some articles mentioning groups there opposing it.



salimbag

(173 posts)
4. Vietnam govt leaders are for TPP
Mon May 18, 2015, 09:51 PM
May 2015
http://vietnamnews.vn/opinion/260328/tpp-poses-challenge-for-animal-husbandry-sector.html

TPTB in Vietnam are totally on board with TPP. Rich get richer, etc. One thing of note in the referenced article, family farms that raise animals for sale in the market would be reduced from two million (2,000,000) to four hundred thousand (400,000). Only the larger farms would be allowed to raise animals for sale, so the small farms would do what, exactly? The loss of income for one million six hundred (1,600,000) families would be devastating.

Any protest against govt policy is discouraged.
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