The full text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is available to you here

From the Office of President Obama the TPP comes fully shareable, highlightable and annotateable for Medium users and appears officially on the United States Trade Representative (USTR) website here.

You can also search the text online via the Washington Post here.

The text of the TPP was also released by the New Zealand Government on the 5th of November and can be accessed by Chapter here.

Legal verification and review of the text is continuing “for Accuracy, Clarity and Consistency”. The Agreement is also being translated into French and Spanish language versions. The NZ Government is preparing a legal synopsis of the Agreement as well.

You can download a Zip file of all 30 Chapters (excluding Annexes) [ZIP, 3.15MB]

Copies have been uploaded on Wikisource and Scribd, and Wikileaks has another online search.

The TPA vote was for all intents and purposes a TPP vote, sent back to the Senate for final cloture (bringing debate to a quick end) and approval.

In May-June, just 28 Democrats in the House and 13–14 Democrats in the Senate backed TPA, which eventually passed the House with 218 votes and the Senate with 60 (there was only a 50-vote requirement post-cloture, which the bill easily achieved.) Under this “fast-track” law, approval of TPP needs just a simple majority as long as lawmakers believe the trade deal meets the requirements laid out under TPA.

After notifying Congress on Thursday the 5th of November that he intends to sign the TPP, Obama has to wait at least 90 days to actually do so. And then Obama would have to officially submit the deal to Capitol Hill, which would have 90 legislative days to vote on the agreement.

If all 12 countries have not ratified the agreement within two years, provisions allow for it to take effect if six countries comprising 85% of the GDP of the bloc have signed. That means US ratification as the world’s biggest economy is essential.

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All 30 Chapters should take at least an estimated thirteen-sixteen person-hours to read (and understand.) That’s if you’re a notable widely known and reliable legal expert or trade professional. It’s possibly much more assuming you’re just another lay person with political views or a person who just likes christmas stuff.)

This is why I posted this mashup, to help everyone find their role in our future, by posting more blogs that pull out what you think are the important issues from the TPP.

“We need to see the background documents that help make sense of the text, but the parties have vowed to keep secret for effectively another six years.”

“We also need the various analyses the New Zealand government has relied on when talking up the benefits and playing down the costs. They have been coy about who has done this work, especially the projections of $2.7b benefits for the economy, and stalled on Official Information Act requests to release them, despite the High Court’s rebuke last month.” — TPP opponent and law professor Jane Kelsey