Friday, July 3, 2015

Sputnik — WikiLeaks: TISA to Block Other Deals Aiming to Boost Developing Economies

The government procurement section of the published TISA documents “makes the new risks from TISA to governments’ right to regulate in their national interest much clearer,” University of Auckland Law Professor Jane Kelsey wrote in a legal analysis of the document for WikiLeaks.

The terms of the treaty document would allow powerful multinational corporations in major industrial nations to “bypass other governments in the World Trade Organization (WTO), and rewrite its services agreement in the interests of their corporations,” Kelsey warned.
Sputnik
WikiLeaks: TISA to Block Other Deals Aiming to Boost Developing Economies

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