Hoffa: It Gets Worse if TPP is Enacted

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13. Do you know about the Four Modes of Supply?

The fourth mode is the "movement of natural persons".


basically, look at it this way, in order for US companies to be given Most favored nation status or national Treatment status, the US has to give other countries something in exchange.

Since the government cannot give away private corporate jobs, it can only privatize public jobs. Which public jobs to be privatized? Only those which are not "public services" in this narrowly defined sense..

"For the purposes of this Agreement…

(b) 'services' includes any service in any sector except services supplied in the exercise of governmental authority;

(c) 'a service supplied in the exercise of governmental authority' means any service which is supplied neither on a commercial basis, nor in competition with one or more service suppliers."


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