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<div class="container"><div class="row main-row" style="font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; width:50%; margin: 0 auto;"><p style="font-size: 48px; color:#DC5843;">TTIP</p><br><br><p style="text-align:left">
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP, is a bilateral free trade agreement being negotiated between the EU and US. It seeks the removal of trade barriers (or ‘red tape’) which make it more difficult for certain corporations to gain access to foreign markets. TTIP is purported to create jobs, stimulate foreign investment and boost the economy. However, it will also favour corporate profit and security at the expense of the safety, dignity and welfare of citizens.
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The trade barriers include measures that have been implemented by societies in order to protect the rights of their citizens. These include food safety legislation, data protection acts, and environmental protection regulations. For example, in the EU corporations must abide by the ‘precautionary principle’, an important safeguard in EU law. This ensures that a product cannot enter the market unless proven safe. This is in contrast to the US, where a product can enter the market until proven <i>unsafe</i>.
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Thus we can see that standards in the EU and US differ. It is these standards which TTIP seeks to ‘harmonise’, therefore allowing products such as GMO foods and hormone-injected beef to enter our market. Irrespective of the safety implications of this, the economic effects would be disastrous for Irish farmers who would be pushed out of the market due to increased foreign competition as the prices of foreign products are reduced.
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Another major issue of contention is that is Investor State Dispute Settlements (ISDS). This clause would allow foreign firms to hire a secretive tribunal of highly paid corporate lawyers to sue for compensation whenever a government passes a law which is in the interest of its citizens, yet may have a negative impact on the foreign firm’s profits or investment potential. For example, if TTIP was passed, potentially a fracking company could sue Ireland if we passed a law banning fracking.
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The negotiations surrounding TTIP have been conducted at high governmental levels in a non-transparent manner, with access to talks dominated largely by big business and industry lobby groups. It is for this reason that a number of Irish civil society organisations working on behalf of social and environmental justice at local and global levels, have come together to share information and to stimulate greater public awareness regarding these negotiations.
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<a style="color:white" href="http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21623756-governments-are-souring-treaties-protect-foreign-investors-arbitration?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/the_arbitration_game">The Economist - The arbitration game</a>
<br><a style="color:white" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/09/01/ttip-eu-us-trade-deal_n_5747088.html">Huffington Post - NHS Not Safe From Private Firms In Controversial TTIP Deal
<br><a style="color:white" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/what-is-ttip-and-six-reasons-why-the-answer-should-scare-you-9779688.html">The Independent - What is TTIP?</a>
<br><a style="color:white" href="http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2015/march/tradoc_153266.pdf">European Commission - Top 10 myths about TTIP</a>
<br><a style="color:white" href="http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2014/may/tradoc_152462.pdf">European Commission - TTIP explained</a>
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