Trade
Trade Negotiations
First published 13 November 2013 · Trans-Pacific Partnership and Trade in Services Agreement negotiating parties · 2 releases
Secret negotiating texts of two trade deals: the TPP's intellectual-property chapter (2013) and the TiSA financial-services annex (2014).
Overview
The TPP and TiSA were negotiated with no public draft text. We published the consolidated TPP Intellectual Property chapter in November 2013 and the TiSA Financial Services Annex in June 2014.
Both are bracketed texts recording the proposals and objections of each negotiating state. The TiSA annex was marked to stay classified for five years after the agreement entered into force.
What reporting revealed
- The TPP IP chapter we published on 13 November 2013 ran to 95 pages and 30,000 words, dated 30 August 2013.
- It recorded the negotiating positions of all 12 TPP countries.
- The TPP was signed by 12 countries in February 2016. The US withdrew in January 2017.
- The TiSA Financial Services Annex we published on 19 June 2014 was dated 14 April 2014.
Catalogue records
Entries describing the release and related documents, with provenance and sources.
| Published | Cat. no. | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-06-19 | FAN-0022 | Trade in Services Agreement: draft Financial Services Annex The confidential draft Financial Services Annex of the Trade in Services Agreement, dated April 2014, which I published with parties' negotiating positions and a marking to keep it secret after entry into force. | Draft treaty text |
| 2013-11-13 | FAN-0021 | Trans-Pacific Partnership: draft Intellectual Property chapter The confidential consolidated draft of the TPP's intellectual-property chapter, showing the negotiating positions of all 12 countries as of August 2013; I published it days before a chief negotiators' meeting. | Draft treaty text |
Source
- Trade Negotiations — original release — wikileaks.org (Original publication)wikileaks.org