US to Withhold TPP Legal Instrument Until Partners Certify Full Compliance, Say House Democrats
The U.S. must ensure Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiating parties modify their domestic laws and other policies to bring them into compliance with TPP commitments before a final agreement takes effect, said 18 House Democrats in a July 29 letter to President…
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Barack Obama. “It is imperative that all of the TPP nations understand that the U.S. implementing legislation for the TPP will include the standard requirement that formal written notification to other TPP countries of U.S. completion of its legal requirements to implement the TPP be withheld until and unless our trade partners are in compliance with all of the TPP’s terms,” said the lawmakers, led by Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., and Collin Peterson, D-Minn. That stipulation caused a “years-old delay” in implementation of the Central America Free Trade Agreement following its ratification by all parties, said the letter (here). “Therefore, it is important for our TPP partners to be well apprised of this requirement in advance.” DeLauro and the other House Democrats also called on U.S. negotiators to certify no TPP partners are considered currency manipulators. All the TPP parties must bring their laws into compliance on labor, environment, telecommunications, corruption and human rights, the letter said.