Opinions on the Trans-Pacific Partnership

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is used as a weapon, next target Mexico.

Almost all kinds of economic trade look forward to open economic relationships between two or more countries to make their markets stronger. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) wants to affect trade in goods, the remedies, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, the services, intellectual property, the competition policy, among other things. In this relationship we can find a lot of countries that surround the Pacific Ocean, like Chile, New Zealand, Brunei, Singapore, U.S., Peru, Mexico, Malaysia and some others.

By definition, free trade is “the unrestricted purchase and sale of goods and services between countries without the imposition of constraints such as tariffs, duties and quotas. It is a win-win proposition because it enables nations to focus on their core competitive advantage(s), thereby maximizing economic output and fostering income growth for their citizens”(1). This is what the TPP seems to promise us. Mexico is one of the few countries that it is still in negotiations and our government has to be very careful on what it will agree on with the signing of this economic trade.

Trying to have an opinion about new trades would be very easy if you had almost all the information and in that way you could choose what team you support. Unfortunately, in this certain case TPP has not provided enough information to the public to make them comfortable with these kinds of decisions.

People and experts are starting to give their opinions about this economic trade. The fact is that the majority of them are not very positive, and I will quote some of them. The Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz expressed that this trade offers the society “grave risks” and that it “serves the interest of the wealthiest” (2). The American activist and professor of the MIT, Noam Chomsky, said that TPP is “designed to carry forward the neoliberal project to maximize profit and domination, and to set the working people in the world in competition with one another so as to lower wages to increase insecurity”(3). Lots of other opinions like this are all over the network, but they are not that different between each other.

With this information, regular people may think that TPP is not as good as the government can make it seem. Unfortunately, the governments involve just make things worse by not letting people know exactly what this economic trade is about. Through the years some information has been leaked and put into the Internet what the TPP contains. The information does not seem like good news for the public. The lack of transparency is one of the worst issues in this new economic trade and it must be taken as a very serious thing.

The TPP must take more into consideration the public concern. And we as the society must demand this to our governments. We are going to deal with the economic consequences that this economic trade is going to bring us, unfortunately our governments are not.

This has to do with the intellectual property chapter because it is not limited in tariffs or money. It wants to implement substantive provisions of copyright law.

The implementation involves users, technology companies and creators of the websites and

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