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Excerpt: "WikiLeaks releases new secret documents from the huge Trade in
Services Agreement (TiSA) which is being negotiated by the US, EU and 22
other countries that account for 2/3rds of global GDP. Coinciding with the
ongoing climate talks in Paris, today's publication touches on issues of
crucial relevance including the regulation of energy, industrial
development, workers' rights and the natural environment."
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WikiLeaks Releases Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) Secret Documents
By Press Release | WikiLeaks
03 December 15
Today, Thursday, December 3, 10am EST, WikiLeaks releases new secret
documents from the huge Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) which is being
negotiated by the US, EU and 22 other countries that account for 2/3rds of
global GDP. Coinciding with the ongoing climate talks in Paris, today's
publication touches on issues of crucial relevance including the regulation
of energy, industrial development, workers' rights and the natural
environment. WikiLeaks is also publishing expert analyses of the documents.
The Trade In Services Agreement is the largest trade treaty of its kind in
history. The economies of the 52 countries involved in the negotiation,
which is being led by the United States, are mostly the supply of services.
According to World Bank figures, services comprise 75% of the EU economy,
80% of the US economy and the majority of the global economy. Notably
excluded in the TiSA negotiations are the emerging economies and the BRICS
(Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).
The "Energy Related Services Annex Proposal: Questions and Answers" document
sets out TiSA designs to create an international market in energy-related
services for foreign suppliers. While heads of state prepare to sign climate
accords in Paris, TiSA negotiators are meeting behind closed doors in Geneva
to forge new limits on energy regulation.
The "Annex on Environmental Services" reveals that TiSA will aim to ensure
that national environmental protections within TiSA countries will be
"harmonized down", promoting the interests of multinational companies
providing water purification, sanitation and refuse disposal services over
worker safety, public health and the natural environment. Assessing the
agreement, Friends of the Earth calls TiSA "an environmental hazard",
pointing out that public services of an environmentally sensitive nature are
in danger of being privatized. Commenting on the "Annex on Road Freight
Transport and Related Logistical Services", the International Transport
Workers Federation (ITF) calls TiSA a "race to the bottom," observing that
the Annex joins other Annexes published by WikiLeaks to form an overarching
trade liberalization agenda, fragmenting the trucking industry, opening up
sensitive areas of the transport sector to international competition, and
contributing to the ongoing privatization of public services, undercutting
workers' rights, public health and safety, and the ability of national
governments to plan and direct their own industrial and infrastructural
development.
While the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and
Investment Pact (TTIP) have received attention, the TiSA is the largest
component of the United States' "Big Three," the triumvirate of strategic
neoliberal trade deals being advanced by the Obama administration. Together,
the three treaties form not only a new legal order hospitable for
transnational corporations, but a new economic "grand enclosure", which
excludes China and all other BRICS countries.
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WikiLeaks Releases Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) Secret Documents
By Press Release | WikiLeaks
03 December 15
oday, Thursday, December 3, 10am EST, WikiLeaks releases new secret
documents from the huge Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) which is being
negotiated by the US, EU and 22 other countries that account for 2/3rds of
global GDP. Coinciding with the ongoing climate talks in Paris, today's
publication touches on issues of crucial relevance including the regulation
of energy, industrial development, workers' rights and the natural
environment. WikiLeaks is also publishing expert analyses of the documents.
The Trade In Services Agreement is the largest trade treaty of its kind in
history. The economies of the 52 countries involved in the negotiation,
which is being led by the United States, are mostly the supply of services.
According to World Bank figures, services comprise 75% of the EU economy,
80% of the US economy and the majority of the global economy. Notably
excluded in the TiSA negotiations are the emerging economies and the BRICS
(Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).
The "Energy Related Services Annex Proposal: Questions and Answers" document
sets out TiSA designs to create an international market in energy-related
services for foreign suppliers. While heads of state prepare to sign climate
accords in Paris, TiSA negotiators are meeting behind closed doors in Geneva
to forge new limits on energy regulation.
The "Annex on Environmental Services" reveals that TiSA will aim to ensure
that national environmental protections within TiSA countries will be
"harmonized down", promoting the interests of multinational companies
providing water purification, sanitation and refuse disposal services over
worker safety, public health and the natural environment. Assessing the
agreement, Friends of the Earth calls TiSA "an environmental hazard",
pointing out that public services of an environmentally sensitive nature are
in danger of being privatized. Commenting on the "Annex on Road Freight
Transport and Related Logistical Services", the International Transport
Workers Federation (ITF) calls TiSA a "race to the bottom," observing that
the Annex joins other Annexes published by WikiLeaks to form an overarching
trade liberalization agenda, fragmenting the trucking industry, opening up
sensitive areas of the transport sector to international competition, and
contributing to the ongoing privatization of public services, undercutting
workers' rights, public health and safety, and the ability of national
governments to plan and direct their own industrial and infrastructural
development.
While the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and
Investment Pact (TTIP) have received attention, the TiSA is the largest
component of the United States' "Big Three," the triumvirate of strategic
neoliberal trade deals being advanced by the Obama administration. Together,
the three treaties form not only a new legal order hospitable for
transnational corporations, but a new economic "grand enclosure", which
excludes China and all other BRICS countries.
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