Excerpt: "WikiLeaks releases a modern journalistic holy grail: the secret
Core Text for the largest 'trade deal' in history, the TiSA (Trade In
Services Agreement), whose 52 nations together comprise two-thirds of global
GDP."
Julian Assange. (photo: CNN)
WikiLeaks Publishes 'Journalistic Holy Grail'
By Julian Assange, WikiLeaks
01 July 15
Today, 1500 CEST Wednesday, 1 July 2015, WikiLeaks releases a modern
journalistic holy grail: the secret Core Text for the largest 'trade deal'
in history, the TiSA (Trade In Services Agreement), whose 52 nations
together comprise two-thirds of global GDP. The negotiating parties are the
United States, the 28 members of the European Union and 23 other countries,
including Turkey, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Pakistan, Taiwan and Israel.
Today's publication happens the week before the next TiSA negotiating round
that begins on Monday, 6 July. WikiLeaks is also today publishing the full
agenda for next week's negotiations, which shows that discussions will focus
on Financial Services, Telecommunications and the Movement of Natural
Persons.
WikiLeaks is also publishing a previously unpublished Annex text - the
secret TiSA Annex on Government Procurement. The draft Annex aims to reduce
procurement regulation to ensure that TiSA governments will not favour local
services over services supplied by foreign multinationals.
WikiLeaks is also publishing the new negotiating texts for three highly
controversial TiSA annexes: the annexes on the Movement of Natural Persons,
the Domestic Regulation Annex and the Transparency Annex. All three texts
include negotiating positions of each of the participant countries in the
TiSA negotiations, and illustrate developments from previous versions of the
TiSA annexes, also published by WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks has also released 36 pages of our own expert analysis.
While the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic
Trade and Investment Pact (TTIP) have become well known in recent months,
the TiSA is the largest component of the United States' strategic neoliberal
'trade' treaty triumvirate. Together, the three treaties form not only a new
legal order shaped for transnational corporations, but a new economic "grand
enclosure", which excludes China and all other BRICS countries.
According to statements made in April by US Secretary of Defense Ashton
Carter, parts of the triumvirate are "as important" to the US engagement
with Asia as "another aircraft carrier". All three treaties have been
subject to stringent criticism for the lack of transparency and public
consultation in their negotiation processes. TiSA drafts are classified for
a period of five years after the completion of the treaty.
According to NSA interceptions of French treasurer Jean-Francois Boittin
published by WikiLeaks on Tuesday "Washington is negotiating with every
nation that borders China... so as to 'confront Beijing'."
The TiSA Core Text shows how this negotiation aims at going beyond the GATS
agreement, substantially further restricting what governments can do in
services. There are far more extensive criteria for commercial firms,
including foreign ones, to force governments to protect their corporate
interests. Changes to scheduling bring more services than GATS under two
main rules regarding commercial businesses working in foreign jurisdictions:
non-discrimination in favour of local companies and market access abilities
to not limit the size and shape of foreign companies in the market.
The text also shows TiSA expanding the GATS agreement to include new
"disciplines" such as those on domestic regulation, transparency and
eCommerce. TiSA is also of great worry to developing countries, a number of
whom will be bound by this agreement, as it does not give any of the GATS
provisions for them, but instead gives greater protections for foreign
growth into the countries, with protections for national services far lesser
than GATS'.
Today's publication of the TiSA Core Text adds to WikiLeaks' prior
publications of numerous secret TiSA annexes. The text reveals the
ideological and legal underpinnings of the TiSA, and provides the
overarching context for each of the TiSA annexes.
According to World Bank figures, "services" comprise 75% of the EU economy
and 80% of the US economy. For a typical developing country like Pakistan,
services comprise 53% of its economy. The TiSA covers the majority of the
global economy.
Julian Assange
Error! Hyperlink reference not valid. Error! Hyperlink reference not valid.
Julian Assange. (photo: CNN)
https://wikileaks.org/tisa/press.html?2https://wikileaks.org/tisa/press.html
?2
WikiLeaks Publishes 'Journalistic Holy Grail'
By Julian Assange, WikiLeaks
01 July 15
oday, 1500 CEST Wednesday, 1 July 2015, WikiLeaks releases a modern
journalistic holy grail: the secret Core Text for the largest 'trade deal'
in history, the TiSA (Trade In Services Agreement), whose 52 nations
together comprise two-thirds of global GDP. The negotiating parties are the
United States, the 28 members of the European Union and 23 other countries,
including Turkey, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Pakistan, Taiwan and Israel.
Today's publication happens the week before the next TiSA negotiating round
that begins on Monday, 6 July. WikiLeaks is also today publishing the full
agenda for next week's negotiations, which shows that discussions will focus
on Financial Services, Telecommunications and the Movement of Natural
Persons.
WikiLeaks is also publishing a previously unpublished Annex text - the
secret TiSA Annex on Government Procurement. The draft Annex aims to reduce
procurement regulation to ensure that TiSA governments will not favour local
services over services supplied by foreign multinationals.
WikiLeaks is also publishing the new negotiating texts for three highly
controversial TiSA annexes: the annexes on the Movement of Natural Persons,
the Domestic Regulation Annex and the Transparency Annex. All three texts
include negotiating positions of each of the participant countries in the
TiSA negotiations, and illustrate developments from previous versions of the
TiSA annexes, also published by WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks has also released 36 pages of our own expert analysis.
While the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic
Trade and Investment Pact (TTIP) have become well known in recent months,
the TiSA is the largest component of the United States' strategic neoliberal
'trade' treaty triumvirate. Together, the three treaties form not only a new
legal order shaped for transnational corporations, but a new economic "grand
enclosure", which excludes China and all other BRICS countries.
According to statements made in April by US Secretary of Defense Ashton
Carter, parts of the triumvirate are "as important" to the US engagement
with Asia as "another aircraft carrier". All three treaties have been
subject to stringent criticism for the lack of transparency and public
consultation in their negotiation processes. TiSA drafts are classified for
a period of five years after the completion of the treaty.
According to NSA interceptions of French treasurer Jean-Francois Boittin
published by WikiLeaks on Tuesday "Washington is negotiating with every
nation that borders China... so as to 'confront Beijing'."
The TiSA Core Text shows how this negotiation aims at going beyond the GATS
agreement, substantially further restricting what governments can do in
services. There are far more extensive criteria for commercial firms,
including foreign ones, to force governments to protect their corporate
interests. Changes to scheduling bring more services than GATS under two
main rules regarding commercial businesses working in foreign jurisdictions:
non-discrimination in favour of local companies and market access abilities
to not limit the size and shape of foreign companies in the market.
The text also shows TiSA expanding the GATS agreement to include new
"disciplines" such as those on domestic regulation, transparency and
eCommerce. TiSA is also of great worry to developing countries, a number of
whom will be bound by this agreement, as it does not give any of the GATS
provisions for them, but instead gives greater protections for foreign
growth into the countries, with protections for national services far lesser
than GATS'.
Today's publication of the TiSA Core Text adds to WikiLeaks' prior
publications of numerous secret TiSA annexes. The text reveals the
ideological and legal underpinnings of the TiSA, and provides the
overarching context for each of the TiSA annexes.
According to World Bank figures, "services" comprise 75% of the EU economy
and 80% of the US economy. For a typical developing country like Pakistan,
services comprise 53% of its economy. The TiSA covers the majority of the
global economy.
Julian Assange
http://e-max.it/posizionamento-siti-web/socialize
http://e-max.it/posizionamento-siti-web/socialize
