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• The Trade Debate: Election Outcomes Affected, Public Views Increasingly Negative, Imminent Lame-Duck Fight Over TPP Is First Salvo in Election 2018 (November 7, 2016)
• Updated Quote Sheet: Selected Government Statements and Actions Against Investor-State Dispute Settlement (October 19, 2016)
• Don't Believe the Hype: Agricultural Exports Lag under Trade Deals, Belying Empty Promises Recycled for the TPP (September 13, 2016)
• Six Things to Know About the TPP (July 28, 2016)
• Polling Memo: Public Anger About Corporate Power Dominant Factor in Views on Trade and TPP. Graphs Available Here. (July 13, 2016)
• Action Guide for Stopping TPP (June 14, 2016)

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USITC Report on the TPP’s Economic Effects Projects Significant Losses (May 26, 2016)
Data Fail: The Divergence between Rosy International Trade Commission Projections and U.S. Trade Agreements’ Actual Outcomes (May 12, 2016)
Auditing the Administration's TPP "Tax Cut" Claims: Funny Math and Misdirection (April 18, 2016)
Talking Points: Response to Peterson Institute Pro-TPP Paper (March 28, 2016)
Updated Factsheet:Job-Killing Trade Deficits Surge under FTAs: U.S. Trade Deficits Grow 418% with FTA Countries, but Decline 6% with Non-FTA Countries (March 9, 2016)
Peterson Institute TPP Study Fact Check (January 28, 2016)
Pre-SOTU TPP Facts and Figures (January 7, 2016)
UPDATED Initial TPP Text Analysis - Secret TPP Text Unveiled: It's Worse than We Thought (January 6, 2016)
Factsheet: Uses and Abuses of China Claims in TPP Sales Pitch: Foreign Policy Arguments Mimic False Claims Made for Past Pacts (January 6, 2015)
Factsheet: TPP's Failure to Include Enforceable Disciplines Against Currency Manipulation (January 6, 2015)
Factsheet: Final Trans-Pacific Partnership Text Reveals Unexpected Threats to U.S. National Security (January 6, 2016)
TPP: Threats to Affordable Medicines Factsheet (December 30, 2015)
TPP Financial Stability Threats Unveiled: It's Worse than We Thought (November 18, 2015)
Secret TPP Investment Chapter Unveiled: It’s Worse than We Thought (November 5, 2015)
TPP Vote Timeline (September 25, 2015)
10 Presidential Candidates Criticize the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Upping Political Costs of Supporting the Pact (August 21, 2015)
The Obama Administration's "See-No-Evil" Approach to the TPP (August 21, 2015)
Studies Reveal Consensus: Trade Flows during "Free Trade" Era Have Exacerbated U.S. Income Inequality (August 20, 2015)
Prosperity Undermined: The Status Quo Trade Model's 21-Year Record of Massive U.S. Trade Deficits, Job Loss and Wage Suppression (August 20, 2015)
The TPP: More Job Offshoring and Lower Wages (August 20, 2015)
Only One of 44 Attempts to Use the WTO's "General Exception" to Defend a Domestic Policy Has Ever Succeeded (August 19, 2015)
CAFTA's Decade of Empty Promises Haunts the TPP (July 28, 2015)
TPP Vote Calendar: Obama Administration Hype About a TPP Vote in 2015 Does Not Comport with Fast Track Timelines (July 23, 2015)
Don't Believe the Hype: Agricultural Exports Lag under Trade Deals, Belying Empty Promises Recycled for the TPP (July 2, 2015)
Raw Deals for Small Businesses: U.S. Small Firms Have Endured Slow and Declining Exports under "Free Trade" Deals (June 22, 2015)
U.S. Polling Shows Strong Opposition to Fast Tracking More of the Same U.S. Trade Deals from Independents, Republicans and Democrats Alike (June 9, 2015)
TPP Would Let Us Write the Rules, Not China? Wait, that's Exactly What We Were Told in 2000 When Congress Was Skeptical About China Joining the World Trade Organization and We Know How Badly THAT Worked Out... (June 9, 2015)
Map: What Would the TPP Mean For Your State? (April 10, 2015)
Analysis of Leaked Trans-Pacific Partnership Investment Text (March 25, 2015)
Case Studies: Investor-State Attacks on Public Interest Policies (March 6, 2015)
Job-Killing Trade Deficits Surge under FTAs: U.S. Trade Deficits Grow More Than 425% with FTA Countries, but Decline 11% with Non-FTA Countries (February 25, 2015)
Watch: Global Trade Watch's Ben Beachy Discusses TPP Broken Promises at a Congressional Briefing (February 19, 2015)
Infographic: Obama vs. Obama (January 21, 2015)
Infographic: NAFTA Terms Replicated in TPP (January 9, 2015)
Updated Memo: TPP Government Procurement Negotiations: Buy American Policy Banned, a Net Loss for the U.S. (January 6, 2015)
176 Million Workers Call to Stop TPP Negotiations (November 12, 2014)
Buy American Would Be Gutted under the TPP: Unraveling the Spin from USTR (October 21, 2014)
U.S. Trade Officials Defy Post-Crisis Consensus Backing Capital Controls (July 25, 2014)
TPP: The "Trade" Deal that Could Inflate Your Healthcare Bill (July 21, 2014)
The Rising Use of the Trade Pact Sales Pitch of Last Resort: TPP Foreign Policy Arguments Mimic False Claims Made for Past Deals (April 2014)
Factsheet: Learn how the TPP's investment rules harm Public Access to Essential Services (February 3, 2014)
Factsheet: Learn how the TPP's investment rules harm Public Health (February 3, 2014)
Factsheet: Learn how the TPP's investment rules harm the Environment (February 3, 2014)
NAFTA's 20-Year Legacy and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (January 2014)
Update on Salt Lake TPP Talks (November 25, 2013)
Breakdown of the 151 Democratic signatories on the DeLauro-Miller Fast Track Letter (November 13, 2013)
TPP Corporate Factsheet Flurry – Many Sheets, Few Facts and the Same Old Promises that Have Proven False (November 6, 2013)
Public Citizen Comments to USTR on Japan's Participation in TPP Talks (July 2, 2013)
Updated and Expanded – U.S. Pharmaceutical Corporation Uses NAFTA Foreign Investor Privileges Regime to Attack Canada's Patent Policy, Demand $100 Million for Invalidation of a Patent (March 2013)
Election 2012: U.S. Polling Shows NAFTA-style Trade Deals Becoming Even More Unpopular (January 24, 2013)
U.S.-Peru FTA Investor Rights: Lessons Learned and New Approaches Needed for TPP (available in Spanish here) (November 28, 2012)
TPP: Un TLC Recardgado con el Mundo (in Spanish) (November 21, 2012)
Investors Use Runaway "Fair and Equitable Treatment" Standard in 75% of "Successful" Cases Against Governments (September 5, 2012)
Public interest analysis of the leaked TPP investment text (June 13, 2012)
Public Citizen Testimony Regarding the Proposed United States Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Negotiation (March 4, 2009)

• President Trump’s Executive Orders Formally Bury TPP’s Corpse, but What About TTIP, TISA, China BIT? (January 23, 2017)
  
• The Burial of the Zombie TPP: Statement from GTW Director Lori Wallach on President-Elect Trump’s Statement on Withdrawing the U.S. From Being a TPP Signatory (November 22, 2016)
• TPP RIP: Statement of Lori Wallach on the Demise of the Trans-Pacific Partnership in the Lame-Duck Session of Congress (November 15, 2016)
• New Interactive Map Shows TPP Would Expand Multinational Corporations' Power to Attack U.S. Laws (September 8, 2016)
• TPP Fight Escalates as Sen. Warren and Hundreds of Academics Oppose Tribunal System at Heart of Pact (September 7, 2016
• Statement: Full Committee Passes Amendment Strengthening TPP Language in Democratic Platform (July 8, 2016)
• Press Release: TPP Opponents Collect Hundreds of Thousands of Petition Signatures Urging Democratic Leader Pelosi to Join Presidential Candidates in Announcing Opposition to Lame-Duck TPP Vote (July 7, 2016)
• Press Release: New ITC Report Finds Disturbing Trends in U.S. Economy After Implementation of Free Trade Agreements (June 30, 2016)
• Press Release: TPP Study Projects Worsening Trade Balances for 36 of 55 U.S. Economic Sectors, Overall U.S. Trade Deficit Increase (May 18, 2016)
• With Trade Commission TPP Review Due Next Week, New Study Shows Past Pacts’ Actual Outcomes Were Opposite of Agency's Rosy Projections (May 12, 2016)

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New Data Reveal That Obama’s Korea Trade Pact on Which the TPP Was Modeled Resulted in Doubling of Trade Deficit (May 4, 2016)
Press Release: Audit of Administration’s ‘Tax Cuts’ Claim for TPP Reveals Cooked Numbers and Misdirects (April 19, 2016)
Press Release: April Fools’ Protests Nationwide Warn Members of Congress That‘The TPP’s No Joke,’ Take On Falsehoods Used to Try to Sell Beleaguered Pact (April 1, 2016)
Statement: TPP Is Obama’s #1 2016 Priority: Why Only 28 Seconds in the SOTU? (January 12, 2016)
Press Release: Hidden in the Omnibus: To Comply With World Trade Organization, Congress Kills Country-of-Origin Meat Labels That 90 Percent of Americans Support (December 18, 2015)
Press Release: WTO Authorizes Over $1 Billion in Sanctions Unless U.S. Guts Popular Country-of-Origin Meat Labels, Disproving Obama Claim That Trade Pacts Can’t Undermine Public Interest Policies (December 7, 2015)
Secret TPP Text Unveiled: It's Worse Than We Thought, With Limits on Food Safety and Controversial Investor-State System Expanded, Rollback of Bush-Era Medicine Access and Environmental Terms (November 5, 2015)
WikiLeaks Publication of Complete, Final TPP Intellectual Property Text Confirms Pact Would Raise Costs, Put Medicines Out of Reach (October 9, 2015)
At TPP Negotiations, U.S. Trade Rep Attempts to Resolve Pharmaceuticals Impasse by Wrapping Same Harmful Proposal in Different Packaging (September 30, 2015)
Advisory: Public Citizen Experts Are at TPP Negotiations in Atlanta, Can Keep You Updated on the Talks (September 30, 2015)
Administration Desperate for Trans-Pacific Partnership Deal: There May Be an Announcement, But a Real Deal? (September 25, 2015)
Yet Another 'Final' TPP Ministerial and Again No Deal; Not Surprising Given Growing Controversy Over TPP Threats Here and in Other Nations (July 31, 2015)
Obama Administration's Cynical Bid to Salvage the TPP by Turning a Blind Eye to Malaysia's Trafficked Persons' Mass Graves Will Only Fuel Criticism of the Pact (July 27, 2015)
Memo to Reporters Covering Hawaii TPP Negotiations and Ministerial (July 23, 2015)
Sen. Menendez, Human Rights Advocates to Host Media Call on Reports the Admin Will Upgrade Malaysia on List of Worst Human Trafficking Centers in Newest TIP Report (July 10, 2015)
Recording: Sen. Menendez Press Call on the TPP and Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report on Malaysia (July 10, 2015)
State Department Lambasts Human Rights Violations in TPP Nations Vietnam and Brunei, Further Complicating Push for Controversial Pact (June 25, 2015)
At Export Council, Obama Expected Push New Fast Track Powers That Congressional Democrats, Obama's Base Oppose (June 10, 2015)
House Expected to Vote Wednesday to Repeal Country-of-Origin Meat Labels Due to a Trade Agreement Provision That Is Replicated in the TPP (June 9, 2015)
Motion to Advance Fast Track Legislation Fails in Senate (May 12, 2015)
Contrary to Obama Speech, Trans-Pacific Partnership Text Reveals Pact Would Double Down on Past Bad Trade Pact Pro-Offshoring, Weak Labor Provisions (May 8, 2015)
Nike Saying It Might Create "Up To" 10,000 U.S. Jobs Is Small Consolation for TPP's Threat to Offshore Massive Number of American Jobs, Lower Wages Across the Economy (May 8, 2015)
Japan's Prime Minister Visits Washington, D.C., Trans-Pacific Partnership and Fast Track Controversy in the U.S. Congress on Agenda (April 28, 2015)
In Press Call, Progressives Announce Anti-Fast Track Activities Nationwide (April 1, 2015)
Advisory: Progressives Announce Anti-Fast Track Activities Nationwide (March 31, 2015)
Seattle City Council Unanimously Votes to Oppose Fast Track, Highlighting Obama's Uphill Battle in Trade Authority Quest (March 30, 2015)
TPP Leak Reveals Extraordinary New Powers for Thousands of Foreign Firms to Challenge U.S. Policies and Demand Taxpayer Compensation (March 25, 2015)
Unhappy Third Birthday for Korea Free Trade Agreement Drags Down Obama Push for Fast Track Trade Authority (March 13, 2015)
Press Call Monday at Noon: On Third Anniversary of Korea FTA, Worsening Trade Deficit Dogs Obama's Quest for Fast Track (March 13, 2015)
Reporters' Memo: President's Annual March 1 Trade Report and Agenda (February 27, 2015)
Corrected Trade Data Confirm Ballooning Trade Deficit Under Korea FTA and More Than Twice the Trade Deficit With NAFTA Partners (February 10, 2015)
Statement of Lori Wallach: 2014 Trade Data Details Growing Trade Deficits under Korea FTA and NAFTA (February 5, 2015)
Reporters Memo: Analysis of 2014 Annual Trade Data (February 4, 2015)
At Export Council, Obama Expected to Urge Corporate Interests to Help Him Obtain New Fast Track Powers to Expand the Status Quo U.S. Free Trade Pact Model That Congressional Democrats, Obama's Base Oppose (December 11, 2014)
Outside Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations in Washington, D.C., Hundreds Gather to Protest TPP, Toast the Demise of Fast Track Authority (December 8, 2014)
Media Advisory: Protest Outside the TPP Negotiations (December 5, 2014)
Statement on Beijing TPP Leaders' Summit by Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch (November 10, 2014)
Reporters' Memo: What the 2014 Election Results Mean for Trade Policy (November 5, 2014)
Statement on Sydney TPP Ministerial Declaration by Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch (October 26, 2014)
Attack on Affordability of Cancer Treatments Revealed in New WikiLeaks Trans-Pacific Trade Pact Text (October 16, 2014)
On Eve of 'Check In' Ministerial, Top 10 Signs That Obama Administration Should Call It Quits on Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations (May 19, 2014)
Release of Two Years of Korea FTA Data Throws More Cold Water on Obama TPP and Fast Track Efforts After Asia Trip Fails to Change Dynamic (May 9, 2014)
On the U.S.-Japan Summit Statement, Regarding TPP: Statement of Lori Wallach, Director, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch (April 25, 2014)
On the Obama-Abe Summit, Regarding TPP: Statement of Lori Wallach, Director, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch (April 24, 2014)
Reporters' Memo: Administration Desperate to Announce Breakthrough on Trans-Pacific Partnership in Japan, But Congress not Buying Economic or Foreign Policy Sales Pitch and Won't Give Obama Trade Authority for TPP (April 21, 2014)
Transcript: Press Call on President's Trip to Asia -- Rep. DeLauro, Rep. Slaughter, Rep. Ellison, and Clyde Prestowitz. Recoding here (April 16, 2014)
TPP Foreign Policy Arguments Mimic False Claims Made for Past Pacts as Use of Perennial Trade Deal Sales-Pitch-of-Last-Resort Increases (April 10, 2014)
On the Conclusion of the TPP Singapore Ministerial (February 25, 2014)
Obama Mexico Visit Spotlights 20-Year Legacy of Job Loss from NAFTA, the Pact on Which Obama's Trans-Pacific Partnership Is Modeled (February 13, 2014)
Deeper Dig Into 2013 Trade Data: USITC Corrections of Last Week's Census Data Show Why Obama's TPP, Fast Track Quest Is in Trouble (February 10, 2014)
Major Drop in U.S. Exports to Korea Since Obama's Free Trade Pact, Zero Growth in U.S. Goods Exports Revealed in Today's 2013 Year-End Trade Data Another Blow to Obama Push for Fast Track and TPP (February 6, 2014)
Obama Downplays Trade Authority, Trans-Pacific Partnership: Fleeting Mention Doesn't Even Reference Recently Introduced Camp-Baucus Fast Track Bill (January 28, 2014)
Legislation to Provide Fast Track Trade Authority for President Obama Finally Introduced, But Can It Pass? (January 9, 2014)
Flyer: Get all the quick facts on the TPP and then spread the word (2014)
Vaunted 2013 Deadline for TPP Passes as Singapore Ministerial Ends Without a Deal, More Talks Slated for 2014 (December 10, 2013)
New Leaked TPP Documents Reveal Daunting Obstacles for Obama's 2013 Deadline to Complete the Deal at Ministerial Meeting's Midpoint (December 8, 2013)
Reporters' Memo: Measuring the Outcomes of the TPP "End Game" Ministerial in Singapore (December 7, 2013)
Democrats' Congressional Campaign Chair, Senior Party Members Warn Obama: Don't Rush into a TPP Deal in Singapore (December 5, 2013)
In Letters to Obama, 151 House Democrats, Bloc of GOP Announce Opposition to 'Fast Track' Trade Authority (November 13, 2013)
Obama Plan to Double U.S. Exports by 2014 Floundering as He Heads to New Orleans Port to Sell His Trade Policy (November 7, 2013)
GTW Director Lori Wallach Statement on Imminent Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Heads of State Meeting At Bali APEC Summit (October 7, 2013)
Elected, Labor and Business Leaders Detail TPP Trade Pact Problems as Obama Considers Heading to Asian Trade Summit (October 3, 2013)
Trans-Pacific Partnership at APEC: What End Game? (No End in Sight…) (October 3, 2013)
As President's Export Council Meets, No Chance to Meet Obama's Export Doubling Goal; Exports Fall Under Free Trade Agreements (September 19, 2013)
Ministerial Meeting Before 19th Round of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Negotiations in Brunei: Trade Ministers Push Deadline Back (Again), Noting Many Unresolved Issues (August 23, 2013)
With No Text Agreed for Several Entire Chapters and Most Tough Political Decisions Unresolved, the So-Called 'Final Round' of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Talks Will Not Be the End of Negotiations (August 21, 2013)
Freshman House Democrats Disinclined to Delegate Congress' Constitutional Trade Authority to Obama, Says Letter Released Today (June 11, 2013)
U.S. Laws Would Be Exposed for Attacks by Japanese Corporations if Japan is Included in Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) (April 12, 2013)
Obama Administration Targets Numerous Public Interest Policies of TPP Countries in 2013 U.S. National Trade Estimate Report (April 5, 2013)
Ahead of Singapore Round of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Negotiations, U.S. Public Opposition to Deal Grows (March 1, 2013)
Japanese Prime Minister Abe's Visit to Washington — The 12 Questions about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that President Obama and Prime Minister Abe Do Not Want to Hear this Week (February 21, 2013)
A Supersized NAFTA: 15th Round of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Negotiations in Auckland Ends (December 11, 2012)
Public Citizen Experts Available After Trans-Pacific Partnership Lead Negotiator Press Briefing in Leesburg, Va., Saturday Morning (September 14, 2012)
While Obama Criticizes Job Offshoring and Touts Transparency, His Trade Officials Will Be Negotiating a Secretive Deal That Would Send More U.S. Jobs Offshore (August 31, 2012)
Growing Attention to Obama Trans-Pacific Trade Pact Threatens to Undermine Offshoring Attack on Romney (July 10, 2012)
Congressional Democrats Escalate Criticism of Substance, Process of Obama's First Trade Pact – the Trans-Pacific Partnership (June 27, 2012)
Following Last Week's Damaging Revelations About the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Obama Administration Expands Controversial Trade Deal (June 18, 2012)
Controversial Trade Pact Text Leaked, Shows U.S. Trade Officials Have Agreed to Terms That Undermine Obama Domestic Agenda (June 13, 2012)
U.S. Abandons Final Pretense of Transparency or Inclusion of Consumer, Health, Environmental, Labor Perspective in TPP Talks (April 10, 2012)
Trans-Pacific Trade Talks in Malaysia Underscore Secrecy of Negotiations, Problems with Potential Deal (December 7, 2011)
Leaked Drug Patent, Formulary Pricing Texts at Trans-Pacific Trade Talks Reveal U.S. Pushing Extreme Pharmaceutical Corporation Demands that Would Undermine Consumers' Access to Affordable Medicine (October 22, 2011)
Recently Revealed 'Secrecy Pact' for Trans-Pacific Trade Talks Belies Obama Administration Promises of Transparency in Trade (October 18, 2011)
November Deadline for Obama's First Trade Deal Falls Away as Controversies Roil Chicago Trans-Pacific Trade Talks (September 15, 2011)
On Access to Medicines, Obama Trade Pact Proposal Appears Set to Undo Bush-Era Improvements (August 13, 2011)
As Part of International Campaign, Unions, Civil Society Organizations Demand Release of Trans-Pacific Trade Deal Texts (February 17, 2011)
Trans-Pacific Trade Deal Countries Can Win Big or Lose Big at New Zealand Casino (December 6, 2010)
Trans-Pacific FTA Negotiations and Access to Medicines (December 4, 2010)
Public Citizen: Leaked New Zealand Paper Challenges U.S. FTA Models in Trans-Pacific Trade Negotiations; Access to Medicines at Stake (December 4, 2010)

• AARP, Doctors Without Borders and Other Groups Warn the White House to Not Make Onerous TPP Provisions that Contribute to Skyrocketing Medicines Prices Even Worse (October 26, 2016)
• 220+ Law and Economics Professors Urge Congress to Reject the TPP and Other Prospective Deals that Include Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) (September 7, 2016)
• Consumers Union and Consumer Federation of America Urge Congress Not To Support Approval of the TPP (September 6, 2016)
• The Movement for Black Lives Calls For an End to the TPP in its Economic Justice Platform (August 2, 2016)
• TransCanada Files NAFTA Suit Demanding More Than $15 Billion for Keystone XL Rejection (June 25, 2016)
• Pending Trade Deals Threaten Efforts to Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground; more than 450organizations urge opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (June 6, 2016)

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AFl-CIO Statement: ITC Report Shows TPP Is Disastrous for Working Families (May 19, 2016)
Machinists Statement: ITC Report Shows TPP’s Deep Flaws for U.S. Workers, Says Machinists Union President (May 19, 2016)
Sierra Club Statement on the U.S. International Trade Commission’s TPP Study (May 18, 2016)
Teamsters: New Projection in TPP Report Should Be Taken with a Grain of Salt (May 18, 2016)
CWA: ITC Report Shows that TPP Fails American Workers (May 18, 2016)
United Steel Workers: International Trade Commission Report Validates that Trans Pacific Partnership Is Not Worth Passing (May 18, 2016)
National Farmers Union: USITC Report Predicts Increase in Trade Deficit, Modest Gains Overall From TPP (May 18, 2016)
CEPR Statement on the TPP and Latest USITC Report (May 18, 2016)
160+ Farm and Food Groups Ask Congress to Reject TPP, Stand Up for Independent Farmers and Ranchers (April 27, 2016)
Over 50 Groups Tell Congress That TPP Would Hurt Small Scale Farmers in Developing Countries, Demand They Reject the Deal (April 19, 2016)
Letter: MSF and over 50 groups urge US Congress to reject the TPP (April 12, 2016)
Sierra Club Report: Looming Trade Deals Threaten Efforts to Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground (March 23, 2016)
40 Major Environmental Groups to Congress: Learn from Keystone XL, Oppose the TPP (March 9, 2016)
Over 1,500 Organizations Urge Opposition to the TPP (January 7, 2016)
Early Statements from Labor, Consumer, Enviro, Etc. Organizations After TPP Text Release (November 10, 2015)
Sierra Club Statement: TPP Text Is Concrete Evidence of Toxic Deal (November 10, 2015)
Sierra Club Analysis of TPP Environment Chapter (November 10, 2015)
Statements from Environmental Organizations on TPP Environment Chapter (November 10, 2015)
NRDC Statement on TPP Text Release: TPP Weakens Protections, Should Be Rejected (November 10, 2015)
Defenders of Wildlife Statement on TPP Text Release: TPP Falls Short for Wildlife (November 10, 2015)
United Steelworkers Statement: USW Opposes American Job-Killing TPP (November 10, 2015)
Environmental Investigation Agency Statement: EIA Does Not Support TPP (November 10, 2015)
350.org Statement: TPP Text Confirms A Handout to the Fossil Fuel Industry (November 10, 2015)
Center for International Environmental Law Statement: TPP Text Threatens Environment, Public Health, Democracy (November 10, 2015)
Friends of the Earth Statement: TPP Text Exposes Threat to Environment, Climate (November 10, 2015)
Greenpeace Statement on TPP Text Release (November 10, 2015)
AFL-CIO Statement on TPP Text Release (November 10, 2015)
Communications Workers of America Statement on TPP Text Release (November 10, 2015)
Teamsters Statement on TPP Text Release (November 10, 2015)
International Trade Union Confederation Statement: Fears Over Trans-Pacific Partnership Confirmed (November 10, 2015)
Machinists Union Statement on TPP Text Release (November 10, 2015)
United Food and Commercial Workers Union Statement on TPP Text Release (November 10, 2015)
National Farmers Union Statement: TPP Will Fail Family Farmers and Ranchers (November 10, 2015)
Alliance for Retired Americans Statement: TPP Text Proves Seniors Have Been Right to Worry About Higher Prescription Drug Prices (November 10, 2015)
National Nurses United Statement: Final TPP Text Even Worse Than Advertised (November 10, 2015)
NETWORK National Catholic Social Justice Lobby Statement on TPP Text Release (November 10, 2015)
Food and Water Watch Statement on TPP Text Release (November 10, 2015)
Doctors Without Borders Statement on TPP Text Release (November 10, 2015)
Environment Groups Outline Demands for TPP, Urging Congress to Vote "No" if Concerns Left Unaddressed (October 29, 2015)
AFL-CIO's President Trumka Asks President Obama for the Release of the TPP Text (October 9, 2015)
Coalition for Better Trade: Majority of American Voters Oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership (September 30, 2015)
OpenTheGovernment: Open government groups call for new USTR "transparency officer" (September 30, 2015)
Friends of the Earth: Obama administration manipulates human rights report to "fast track" Malaysia's participation in TPP trade deal (July 27, 2015)
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union: Upgrading Malaysia's Status: Bad for Human Rights and American Workers (July 27, 2015)
Teamsters: Human rights before huge profits from TPP (July 27, 2015)
United Steelworkers: Removal of Malaysia from Human Trafficking Blacklist (July 27, 2015)
NETWORK Responds to Reports that State Dept. Will Upgrade Malaysia's Status in Human Trafficking Report (July 9, 2015)
AFL-CIO Condemns State Department Upgrade of Malaysia on Trafficking List (July 9, 2015)
Statement from Mark Ruffalo on Tuesday's Senate Vote on Fast Tracking the Trans-Pacific Partnership (June 22, 2015)
Vietnamese Labor Activists tell Congress NO on Fast Track (June 11, 2015)
Hundreds of Tech Companies to Congress: TPP and Fast Track Harms Digital Innovation and Users' Rights (May 20, 2015)
Faith and International Development Organizations Urge Congress to Reject Fast Track and a Bad TPP Deal (April 30, 2015)
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns: TPP investment chapter will further threaten God's Earth and vulnerable people (March 31, 2015)
A Proposed Resolution Expressing the Seattle City Council's Opposition to Fast Track and Strong Concerns About Draft Elements of the TPP (March 30, 2015)
Faith Groups Declare TPP Investment Chapter Unjust and Puts Profit Ahead of People (March 26, 2015)
Transparency Groups Write to Members of Congress, Urging Public Access to Draft Trade Pacts Texts (March 23, 2015)
Lawyers Write to Congressional Leaders to Oppose the Inclusion of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Provisions in the TPP (March 11, 2015)
Doctors Without Borders Writes to President Obama Expressing Concerns that the TPP would Restrict Access to Affordable Medicines (March 9, 2015)
Food & Water Watch: Fact Sheet on the TPP and the Fast Track to a Gusher of Imported Fish (April 2014)
Civil Society Groups Express Concerns with TPP Provisions That Could Adversely Affect U.S. Prescription Drug Programs (April 30, 2014)
United Auto Workers President Bob King Expresses Concern about the TPP, Urges Rejection of Fast Track (January 16, 2014)
Teamsters' Hoffa Writes Congress in Opposition to Fast Track and the TPP (January 1, 2014)
Coalition of 250 Civil Society Organizations Expresses Concern about Financial Deregulation in the TPP and TAFTA (December 19, 2013)
DeLauro, Miller Lead 151 House Dems Telling President They Will Not Support Outdated Fast Track for Trans-Pacific Partnership (see the letter here) (November 13, 2013)
AARP and U.S. Health Groups Write to President Obama on Concerns that TPP Would Undermine Access to Affordable Health Care (November 8, 2013)
Coalition of civil society groups sends letter opposing Fast Track for the TPP to members of Congress and senators (October 23, 2013)
AARP letter to USTR on TPP provisions that would drive up pharmaceutical prices in the U.S. (October 22, 2013)
AFL-CIO Resolution 12: America and the World Need a New Approach to Trade and Globalization (September 11, 2013)
Peruvian Parliamentarians' Resolution calls for greater transparency and public engagement in TPP negotiations (English Translation) (August 28, 2013)
Teamsters: TPP needs a full debate, not a rubber stamp (August 23, 2013)
Mayor Bloomberg in the New York Times: Why is Obama Caving on Tobacco? (August 22, 2013)
California Democratic Party resolution calling for withdrawal from the TPP and for a new, more transparent paradigm for trade negotiations (July 21, 2013)
Environmental NGOs write USTR Froman calling for a strong and binding environmental chapter in the TPP (July 11, 2013)
Joint Resolution from Maine State Legislature Against Fast Track (June 10, 2013)
More then 50 state legislators raise concerns about the TPP's threat to the environment in letter to USTR (May 20, 2013)
Senator Elizabeth Warren warns of TPP's threat to U.S. financial regulations (video) (May 9, 2013)
More Than 400 U.S. Civil Society Groups Write Congress on TPP and Fast Track, Calling for Transparency and Outlining Core Principles for International Economic Pacts (March 4, 2013)
U.S. Civil Society Groups Urge Obama Administration to Ensure U.S. Trade Policy is Consistent with Global Development Goals (February 19, 2013)
U.S. Civil Society Organizations Write USTR Calling for Transparency and Stakeholder Engagement in TPP Negotiations (February 4, 2013)
Over 1.6 million Avaaz activists sign petition to stop the TPP corporate death star (September 14, 2012)
Video: Representative DeFazio speaks against the secrecy of the TPP negotiations on the floor of Congress (September 13, 2012)
Presbyterian Office of Public Witness releases statement on threat of TPP investor-state provisions (September 11, 2012)
Amnesty International speaks out against dangerous of TPP; secrecy concerns (September 6, 2012)
The ACLU statement calls the TPP "The Biggest Threat to Free Speech and Intellectual Property That You've Never Heard Of" (August 29, 2012)
Petition With 90,000+ Signatures Against TPP's Internet Trap Hand-Delivered To U.S. Chief Negotiator In San Diego (July 7, 2012)
State Legislators From 50 States Urge TPP Negotiators to Reject Investor-State Dispute Settlement (July 5, 2012)
IFLA Criticizes Lack of Transparency in TPP Negotiations (July 4, 2012)
Manufacturing Groups' Letter to Sec. Geithner & USTR Kirk on TPP and Currency (May 22, 2012)
36 Legal Academics from Around the World Write to USTR Kirk Expressing Concerns with TPP Transparency and Intellectual Property Chapter (May 9, 2012)
President & CEO of Computer & Communications Industry Association in Forbes: "SOPA, ACTA and the TPP: Lessons for a 21st Century Trade Agenda" (February 29, 2012)
Letter from Economists Around the World Expressing Concern About TPP Capital Controls Ban (February 28, 2012)
Groups to Obama: Reject "Unprecedented Level of Secrecy" in Trade Negotiation (February 27, 2012)
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Urges Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Negotiators to Exempt Tobacco Products from the Proposed Free Trade Agreement (January 2012)
Japanese Representatives Petition Against Joining TPP Negotiations (November 10, 2011)
Joint Statement by Labor Federations of TPP Countries on Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations (November 1, 2011)
Statement of NLARx Executive Director Sharon Treat on Leaked Text on Transparency for Healthcare Marketing and Reimbursement (October 25, 2011)
Leaked Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement Texts Reveal U.S. Pushing Extreme Pharmaceutical Corporation Demands (October 22, 2011)
Japanese Representatives Emergency Resolution against an Immature Pledge to Join TPP Negotiations (October 21, 2011)
Rep. Henry Waxman and Colleagues Write to Kirk on Access to Medicines in TPP Negotiations (October 19, 2011)
International Civil Society Requests Transparency in Trans-Pacific FTA Talks (updated October 2011)
U.S. Civil Society to United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk (October 18, 2011)
Malaysian Civil Society to TPP Negotiators (October 17, 2011)
New Zealand Civil Society to Prime Minister Rt Hon John Key (October 14, 2011)
Peruvian Civil Society to Minister of International Trade Jose Luis Silva Martinot (October 14, 2011)
AFTINET: Australian Civil Society to Minister for Trade Craig Henderson (October 13, 2011)
American Medical Association to Ambassador Kirk on Exclusion of Tobacco and Alcohol from TPP Negotiations (September 8, 2011)
Australian Civil Society to Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Minister for Trade Craig Emerson (February 2011)
Chilean Civil Society to the the Minister of External Relations Alfredo Moreno Charme (February 2011)
Malaysian Civil Society to the Minister of International Trade and Industry YB Dato' Sri Mustapha Mohamed (February 2011)
New Zealand Civil Society to Prime Minister John Key and Minister of Trade Tim Groser
U.S. Civil Society to United States Trade Representative Ambassador Ron Kirk (February 2011)
Over 250 Economists Issue Statement on Capital Controls and Trade Treaties (January 30, 2011)
Civil Society Organizations Send Sign-on Letter on Access to Medicines and the TPP to Ambassador Kirk (September 9, 2010)
Citizens Trade Campaign Letter to President Obama on the TPP (January 25, 2010)
AFL-CIO Comments on the Proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Negotiation (January 25, 2010)
International Brotherhood of Teamsters' Comments on the Proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Negotiation (January 25, 2010)