(11/12/2015) Now that the TPP text has been released, I have read at least some parts of it in detail. It seems to me that it does what the negotiators said it does.
TPP Skeptics Should Switch Sides
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Full Legal Text of TPP is Now Available
(11/05/2015) I have written a few columns this year supportive of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. (E.g., “Critics Should Keep an Open Mind,” The Guardian, Oct. 11, 2015.) Commentators on my column and critics of TPP more generally have expressed great eagerness to know when and where they could read the full legal text of the agreement.
TPP Critics’ Nighttime Fears Fade by Light of Day
(10/11/2015) The TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) that was finally agreed among trade negotiators of 12 Pacific countries on October 5 came as a triumph over long odds. Tremendous political obstacles, domestic and international, had to be overcome over the last five years. Now each country has to decide whether to ratify the agreement.