Trans-Pacific Partnership

• WASHINGTON -- Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced legislation late Wednesday to protest the Obama administrations refusal to share information about controversial trade negotiations with the senator.
(Huffington Post)
• The scene last week at the Intercontinental Dallas Hotel looked like any generic corporate event held in any generic hotel ballroom—until the protesters crashed the party.
(Ars Technica)
• Tight-lipped police officers and security guards: not exactly what I expected to see when I walked onto the second floor of the Intercontinental Hotel in Addison, Texas where trade negotiators convened last week. While representatives from the U.S.
(Huffington Post)
• International trade officials just concluded a 10-day meeting in Texas, where they discussed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
(El Paso Times)
• Dr Emerson said labour and environmental provisions would be included in the Trans Pacific Partnership free trade agreement with the US, Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, Singapore, Peru and Vietnam that had already reached an intense stage of negotiation.
(The Australian)
• The latest round of free trade negotiations are going on now, just two states away in Dallas.
(Arizona Capitol Times)
• Less than a month after White Case filed paperwork with the U.S. Justice Department disclosing its advocacy in the United States for Singapore, this week another law firm in Washington revealed that it too is lobbying here for the Asian nation.
(The BLT: Blog of Legal Times)
• People say a picture is worth a thousand words. A photo released by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative last week is worth at least two. Uh-oh.
(Washington Times)