House Lawmakers Level More Pressure on Data Flow Protections in TPP
House Ways and Means Committee members and other House members reached across the aisle in recent days to pressure U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman to safeguard digital products and cross-border data flow in the Trans-Pacific Partnership and other trade agreements.…
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The bipartisan group of 55 House members threatened to reject a TPP implementation bill that fails to meet a robust standard of digital protection. “We encourage you to resist efforts by other countries to include overly broad exceptions that would unnecessarily undermine these provisions and provide lower levels of protection for digital products and services than other areas of trade,” said the letter, led by committee members Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and Ron Kind, D-Wis. “We also urge you to resist any delay in the implementation of dispute resolution mechanisms.” The Oct. 31 letter follows two other similar letters from lawmakers in recent weeks (see 1410280026).