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President Barack Obama meets with TransPacific Partnership leaders during the APEC summit in Honolulu,MBT Shoes, Hawaii, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011. Pictured from left to right are Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang, Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah, Obama,supra skytop sale, Chilean President Sebastian Pinera, Peruvian President Ollanta Humala, Malaysian Prime Minister Abdul Razak and New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Bill English. (AP Ph
SAN DIEGO The United States and eight other Pacific Rim countries have opened another round of talks aimed at producing a new trade deal.
The talks include Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam, with Canada, Mexico and possibly Japan expected to join.
The proposed partnership was largely unknown outside trade circles until last fall when Prime Minister Stephen Harper signalled a desire to join the ninemember club,supra shoes cheap.
Ottawa lobbied hard to get admitted and it paid off at a recent G20 gathering in Mexico when it was announced that Canada would be invited.
President Barack Obama said in November he was optimistic an agreement would be reached this year, before Mexico and Canada were slated to join.
About 100 protesters peacefully demonstrated outside a downtown hotel where the talks opened Monday. Critics said the talks threatened climate change laws, regulation of financial markets, labour rights and environmental and health protections.
Critics say the process has been shrouded in secrecy,Supra Footwear. Trade Representative Ron Kirk _ the White House's top trade official _ complaining they were being left out of one's loop on the pact. officials insist they have been as open as they have ever been on the trade agreement. They say making public their negotiating positions would undercut their leverage in the talks with other countries. Commerce Department,supra shoes cheap. "Lots of sensitivities in the (intellectual property) negotiations."
Unlike past negotiations with Europe and India, the Harper government has not released a costbenefits study to speculate how much could very well be gained and at what price.
As a latecomer, Canada has had to accept all that has already been agreed to by the TPP partners,MBT Baratos, although Harper said he believes the talks are still in the early stages. joined the club, Canada could no longer sit out.
The reason, he said, is more to do with protecting what Canada has than what it can gain through greater access to markets like Vietnam or even Australia. and Mexico could disrupt existing supply chains.
"It's partly defensive for sure. relationship is not one that they are ignored,MBT Zapatillas," he said.
with files from The Associated Press
The main worry with this agreement is that it would give international companies power to contest national laws on business, environmental or social issues before an international tribunal.
Large corporations have too much power over national governments already and this agreement (at least what was leaked of this discussions in this very opaque process) risks reducing even more the capacity of member countries to legislate on things like food safety, environmental protection or the regulation of financial services.
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