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How TPP gives corporations (they're people, you know) special legal rights (Original Post) Panich52 Jun 2015 OP
What a joke. "Secretive Trade Tribunals." The tribunals are run under UN/WTO rules. You can Hoyt Jun 2015 #1
I have a question perhaps someone can answer. LiberalCatholic Jun 2015 #2
Sure, but we'd get tariffed into the stone age Recursion Jun 2015 #3
 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
1. What a joke. "Secretive Trade Tribunals." The tribunals are run under UN/WTO rules. You can
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 03:24 PM
Jun 2015

follow the progress of any suits under the ISDS on the internet, read the reasons for the suit, how it was certified to proceed (whether it qualifies for action under the ISDS), read decisions, read what arbiters/judges were selected (one by the corporation, one by the country, and one by mutual agreement of the two parties), the decision, how any awards of damages are apportioned, etc.

It's more transparent than a SOCTUS decision, and a lot more democratic too.

I do agree unions don't have an opportunity to use the tribunals in foreign countries (at least under the trade agreement), but then if the so-called International unions actually acted International, they might under other laws.

LiberalCatholic

(91 posts)
2. I have a question perhaps someone can answer.
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 03:25 PM
Jun 2015

Once these trade agreements are passed would it be possible for the United States to get out of them at a later date?

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