How the US is Using a Secret Agreement on Services to Wriggle Out of Its WTO Obligations

17 July, 2015
It is increasingly evident that the TiSA negotiations are an attempt to pressure developing countries to grant greater liberalisation in sectors of interest to the US and other industrialised countries, without the latter having to pay any price for it.

TISA Text and Analysis: Annex on International Maritime Transport Services

2 July, 2015
The draft TiSA Annex on International Maritime Transport Services concentrates on the privatization of maritime transport services in TiSA countries, opening up the maritime services industries to transnational companies and contractors. Affected services would include cargo and passenger transport, cargo handling, storage, warehousing and loading services. WikiLeaks has previously published an earlier version of the Maritime Transport Services Annex. This April 2015 text dates from the 12th round of TiSA negotiations held from 13-17 April 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland.

TISA Text and Analysis: Annex on Electronic Commerce

2 July, 2015
The draft TiSA Annex on Electronic Commerce places restrictions on the regulation of electronic commercial services, disallows requirements for local data storage and processing, and obliges states to allow private data gathered in connection with the provision of e-commerce services to flow freely over borders. An earlier version of the Electronic Commerce Annex was previously published by WikiLeaks. This April 2015 text dates from shortly after the 12th round of TiSA negotiations held from 13-17 April 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland.

TiSA Financial Services Negotiating Text and analysis

2 July, 2015
The draft TiSA Financial Services Annex sets rules which would assist the expansion of financial multi-nationals – mainly headquartered in New York, London, Paris and Frankfurt – into other nations by preventing regulatory barriers. Two earlier versions of the Financial Services Annex have previously been published by WikiLeaks. This April 2015 text dates from the 12th round of TiSA negotiations held from 13-17 April 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland.

TISA Text and Analysis: Annex on Telecommunication Services

2 July, 2015
The draft TISA Annex on Telecommunication Services concentrates on standardizing a communications regulatory regime across all TiSA countries, preventing states from discriminating against foreign or foreign-owned telecommunications providers where to do so would create obstacles to trade or result in a loss of competition, and ensuring access for foreign companies to undersea fiber-optic cables and landing facilities. An earlier version of the Annex was previously published by WikiLeaks. This April 2015 text dates from the 12th TiSA negotiating round help from 13-17 April 2015 in Geneva Switzerland.

Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) Core Text and Analysis

2 July, 2015
The draft core text of Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) contains the most general provisional language agreed by the Parties, establishing the overall legal architecture of TiSA. Specialist areas, such as maritime transport services, or electronic commerce, are dealt with in "Annexes", which are negotiated alongside the core text. WikiLeaks has previously published a large number of secret TiSA Annexes. WikiLeaks' publication of the present core text for the first time gives the public a picture of the scale and scope of TiSA, and illustrates the overarching legal framework for previously published Annexes. The draft core text dates from April 2015, shortly after the 12th round of TiSA negotiations held from 13-17 April 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland.

TISA Text and Analysis: Transparency Negotiating Text

2 July, 2015
The draft TISA Annex on transparency aims to make governments more transparent to global commercial actors, creating obligations to notify and consult with transnational corporations on decisions and measures which may affect their interests. Two earlier versions of the Annex have previously been published by WikiLeaks. This April 2015 text dates from shortly before the 12th round of TiSA negotiations held from 13-17 April 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland.

TISA Text and Analysis: Annex on Domestic Regulation

2 July, 2015
The draft TISA Annex on domestic regulation restricts the ability of TiSA states to enact regulations which affect the international trade in services, or which are deemed incompatible with the market philosophy underlying TiSA. WikiLeaks has previously published an earlier version of this Annex. The April 2015 text dates from shortly after the 12th round of TiSA negotiations held from 13-17 April 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland.

TISA Text and Analysis: Annex on Movement of Natural Persons

2 July, 2015
The draft TISA Annex on movement of natural persons aims to harmonize limitations on the ability of national governments to restrict the ingress, movement or egress within their territory of employees, contractors or agents of services companies. An earlier version of this Annex was previously published by WikiLeaks. This April 2015 text dates from the 12th round of TiSA negotiations held 13-17 April 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland.

TISA Text and Analysis: Annex on Government Procurement

2 July, 2015
The draft TISA Annex on Government procurement aims to regulate the processes by which TiSA governments procure services to ensure that service markets are opened up to international competition and to give foreign services suppliers footing to contest domestic services suppliers in government tendering and procurement procedures. This April 2015 text dates from shortly after the 12th round of TiSA negotiations held from 13-17 April 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland.