Medicine• Public-Citizen-Statement-on-WikiLeaks-TPP-Publication - Intellectual Property chapter text verifies that the pact would harm public health by blocking patient access to lifesaving medicines - The new monopoly rights for big pharmaceutical firms would compromise access in TPP countries - strengthen and broaden special patent and data protections, which pharmaceutical companies use to delay generic competition and keep drug prices high - limit access to affordable medicines

Effects• Face price increases of 60% -80% for certain drugs, while other authorities

insist that patented drugs can be 1,044% more expensive than common generic drugs.• Cheaper generic drugs can not be sold again as Malaysia bonded using

patented medicines (genuine) Findings• difficult to achieve by the poor and middle class• drugs for hepatitis C is now worth more than RM300,000 for the treatment of

12 weeks• cancer which requires medications worth RM7000 a month• developed countries will increase the life span of patents more than 20 years• HAART

Rights for Educational Resources CHAPTER 10 CROSS-BORDER TRADE IN SERVICES •Article 10.9: Recognition “authorisation, licensing or certification of service suppliers, and subject to the requirements of paragraph 4, it may recognise the education or experience obtained, requirements met, or licences or certifications granted, in the territory of another Party or a non-Party”

Effects• limited buffer copies • limit public access to education, research and cultural knowledge that

are digitized• to the extent to criminal copyright of small scale infringement.• Developing copyright to textbooks, journals Findings• Copyright law will now be extended from 50 to 120 years• That is, 70 years later access to the students and the academic world

are difficult, as the price of reference books and information resources that are so high.

State to State Dispute Settlement (SSDS)CHAPTER 28 DISPUTE SETTLEMENT

• Article 28.6: Good Offices, Conciliation and Mediation 2. - shall be confidential

- without prejudice to the rights of the Parties in any other proceedings• Article 28.21: Private Rights No Party may provide for a right of action under its domestic law against any otherCHAPTER 9 INVESTMENT• Article 9.8: Transfers Each Party shall permit all transfers relating to a covered investment to be made freely and without delay into and out of its territory

• Article 9.18: Submission of a Claim to ArbitrationIf an investment dispute has not been resolved within six months of the receipt by the respondent of a written request for consultations pursuant • Article 9.24: Governing Law when a claim is submitted the tribunal shall decide the issues in dispute inaccordance with this Agreement and applicable rules of international law

Effects• any company can drag government to court for claim damages and

compensation• In fact, it is ticket multinational corporations to step up the legal

system of a country, through international arbitration tribunals consisting of three judges; two international judges and one local judge• threat for local entrepreneurs. • opportunity to strengthen the national economy through inward

investment, business, entrepreneurship and injection of external funds (cons)

Findings• Mexico's suit against 14 billion ringgit of foreign investors who filed

under Chapter 11 of NAFTA, which is a provision to protect foreign investors and facilitate the resolution of investment disputes• An example of a case filed against the Mexican government involving

the US waste management company, Metalclad Corporation. Metalclad filed a lawsuit in 1996 NAFTA tribunal after the state of San Luis Potosi in Mexico refused to give permission for the company to reopen a waste management plant after a geological audit showed the plant would contaminate the local water

DESIRE IMPACT• ROLE OF PEOPLE THROUGH PROTEST.• PEOPLE MUST CONCERN ABOUT TTPA.• NGOs (non-government) awareness campaign or online forum.• THE ESTABLISHMENT ABOUT TRANSPARENT GOVERNMENT.

CONTROL&EVALUATION• the government should put off negotiations off TTPA until the text

thereof is exposed to the people.• MPs (Ahli Parlimen) need to be enlightened and should debate the

pros and cons of this agreement.• The government must reject the status of the local services that

should be provided to external power country.

Summary of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

• Comprehensive market access • Regional approach to commitments • Addressing new trade challenges

• Inclusive trade • Platform for regional integration