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July 2, 2012 (San Diego) -- The 13th round of negotiations for the TransPacific Trade Negotiations (TTP) is being held in San Diego at the Bayfront Hilton Hotel. This treaty will expand free trade across the Pacific Rim.
The proposal is supported by business groups, but has drawn sharp criticism from labor, health experts and other groups.
What is a free trade agreement? According to Professor Hisham Foad of the San Diego State University Economics Department "A free trade agreement is a treaty between two or more countries covering how trade in goods and services will be treated. In its simplest form, imported goods are treated identically to domestically produced goods within the free trade zone." As Foad pointed out in an e-mail to ECM, ideally this leads to the closest possible trade conditions among partners, leveling competition and trade between nations.
http://eastcountymagazine.org/node/10263
Let me add some photos from the demonstration...
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)TPP = Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Grrrrrr.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)I took so many, that the paper cannot use all of them... and quite frankly I posted the best of the rest...
But I hope it gives people and idea of what was going on outside... boy I got home to write an article on this... most of it was already written, I needed to plug in demonstration... and a few other things, but I did my research. Yup, the last two weeks were spent in learning all I could about TTP... my editorial, I agree with Salon... NAFTA on steroids.
And then the dive into Mexican elections and write an analysis of that too.
Support small press... the big boys ain't doing this.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)Thanks for the coverage.