http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-fletcher/the-transpacific-partners_5_b_8246364.html
- • Limit how U.S. federal and state officials could regulate foreign firms operating within U.S. boundaries, with requirements to provide them greater rights than domestic firms.
- • Extend the incentives for U.S. firms to offshore investment and jobs to lower-wage countries.
- • Establish a two-track legal system that gives foreign firms new rights to skirt U.S. courts and laws, directly sue the U.S. government before foreign tribunals and
- • Demand compensation for financial, health, environmental, land use and other laws they claim undermine their TPP privileges.
- • Allow foreign firms to demand compensation for the costs of complying with U.S. financial or environmental regulations that apply equally to domestic and foreign firms.
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