TPP谈判搁浅
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TPP谈判搁浅
笔记 2015-08-02 识林 纽约时报8月1日报道，TPP 的最后一次谈判会议未能缔结协议，谈判代表们已经回国，试图获得少数最终分歧点的签字。该报告指出，最终协议的绊脚石是一直阻碍贸易对话几十年的农业保护主义——加拿大的乳品，美国的糖，和日本的大米。 报道接着指出，澳大利亚，智利，新西兰强烈反对美国推动的12年药品数据保护。澳大利亚继续强烈反对12年保护期，表示超过5年就将永远不会通过澳大利亚议会。智利还认为没有必要对他们已经与TPP成员国贸易协定的医药问题达成妥协。 虽然谈判代表们表达了“很快”将再次商讨敲定该协议的一贯乐观态度，但这些分歧显然并不是那么容易和解的，除非放弃包括12年药品数据保护在内的一些要求，协定可能不会最终缔结。最快的情况是会将美国批准进程推至2016年——大选之年，这将让大规模反对TPP的民主党人非常不爽。更有可能的情况是，需要更长的时间来获得最终协议和正式批准，这意味着它最终会由暂不可知的下届总统签署成为法律。 作者：识林-Pepper “Final” TPP Negotiations Fail The New York Times reports today (August 1, 2015) that the final negotiating meeting of the TPP has failed to conclude the agreement and that the negotiators have return home to attempt to get sign-off on a small number of final sticking points. The report states that the stumbling block to a final agreement is the same agricultural protectionism that has bedeviled trade talks for decades, Dairy products in Canada, Sugar in the US, and Rice in Japan. The report goes on to say that Australia, Chile, and New Zealand strongly oppose the US push for 12 years of data protection for pharmaceuticals. Australia continues to strongly oppose the 12 years saying that anything longer than 5 years will never get through the Australian parliament. Chile also see no need of a compromise on the pharmaceutical issue as they already have trade agreements with the TPP members. Although the group expresses the usual optimism about meeting again “soon” to finalize the agreement, the divisions are apparently deep and it seems likely that the agreement is not in a position to be finalized unless some of the demands, including the 12 years protection for pharmaceuticals, are dropped. At best this will push the US ratification process into 2016, the election year, which will be very uncomfortable for the Democrats who largely oppose the TPP. More likely it will take longer to get final agreement and ratification meaning that it will ultimately be signed into law by the next President, whoever that may be. 识林TMwww.shilinx.com版权所有，未经许可不得转载。如需使用请联系admin@shilinx.com |