The Trans-Pacific Powergrab

The UK government is currentlyis currently considering the idea of the UK joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP or CPTPP). This is a high-risk deal that will benefit big business at the expense of people and planet.

TPP would:

• Entrench the corporate court system that gives multinational corporations special powers to bully and sue governments
• Exacerbate global inequality, restricting the ability of developing countries to transform their economies
• Undermine food standards – threatening to allow chlorine chicken and steroid-fed beef into the UK, lowering the quality of food and jeopardising farmers’ livelihoods
• Undermine public services across the world – threatening the NHS and the ability of the developing countries in the deal to build their own public services   
• Give more power to big tech companies to use and abuse our data, and prevent developing countries from building their digital sectors, which are vital for their development
• Take a high-risk approach to regulation of banks, hedge funds and other financial corporations
• Allow big corporations even greater power to patent and place monopolies on traditional seeds that many southern farms depend upon
• Move Britain closer to a US-style system of deregulation that would make it harder to work closely with the EU