US “Stalling” Could Force Acceptance of Onerous TPP

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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/03/05-0



WASHINGTON - Civil society opposition here has strengthened against a U.S.-proposed free trade zone that would include some dozen countries around the Pacific Rim.

As negotiators head into a 16th round of talks this week in Singapore, around 400 organisations are urging the U.S. Congress to demand greater transparency in the proceedings.

On Monday, the first day of the negotiations, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), a humanitarian group, called on President Barack Obama’s administration to “end its stall tactics and revise its proposals for what otherwise promises to be the most harmful trade deal ever for access to medicines in developing countries.”

Look at who has a seat at the table, with the public shut out and more than 600 corporate lobbyists...
The Singapore talks will extend through Mar. 13. Critics say civil society and other critical stakeholders have been systematically shut out of the negotiations, supplanted by corporate interests.

[djean111]

1. From what I have read, the TPP enables other countries to flout regulations,

environmental and otherwise, in the United States.
Methinks the TPP is a reeking time bomb, and I am not looking forward to being told how wonderful it is.
Sometimes I feel like I am a part of Anthony's family on that old Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life".

And I have no reason to believe "forced stalling" is not deliberate, so it looks like the TPP was thrust upon us, much like the sequester.

[G_j]

2. So the GOP is forcing the admin. to stall?

Of course not, what is the excuse then?