{"id":182187,"date":"2015-11-25T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/25\/and-this-is-mild-compared-to-the-trans-pacific-partnership\/"},"modified":"2015-11-25T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T01:37:00","slug":"and-this-is-mild-compared-to-the-trans-pacific-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/25\/and-this-is-mild-compared-to-the-trans-pacific-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"And this is Mild Compared to the Trans-Pacific Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WTO has just ruled that <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2015\/11\/24\/wto-ruling-on-dolphin-safe-tuna-labeling-illustrates-supremacy-of-trade-agreements\/\">requiring the labeling of dolphin safe tuna is an unacceptable restraint of trade<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">International trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) need to be carefully examined piece by piece because they can take precedence over a country\u2019s own laws.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Case in point: the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Friday ruled that dolphin-safe tuna labeling rules \u2014 required by U.S. law, in an effort to protect intelligent mammals from slaughter \u2014 violate the rights of Mexican fishers.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">As a result, the U.S. will have to either alter the law or face sanctions from Mexico.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">I wrote a few weeks ago about how the \u201cinvestor-state dispute settlement system\u201d baked into trade agreements can force countries to compensate corporations when regulations cut into their profits.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The long-running quarrel over tuna reveals another way that domestic laws can be overturned by trade agreements: when countries can file trade challenges on behalf of domestic industries.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThis should serve as a warning against expansive trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership that would replicate rules that undermine safeguards for wildlife, clean air, and clean water,\u201d said the Sierra Club\u2019s Ilana Solomon in a statement.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This short of crap is a feature of trade deals, not a bug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WTO has just ruled that requiring the labeling of dolphin safe tuna is an unacceptable restraint of trade: International trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) need to be carefully examined piece by piece because they can take precedence over a country\u2019s own laws.Case in point: the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Friday ruled &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1010,1079,969,964,1016,1205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-environment","category-evil","category-foreign-relations","category-international-commerce","category-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}