TISA Text and Analysis: Annex on International Maritime Transport Services

2 July, 2015
Wikileaks
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 Telecommunication Services

2 July, 2015
Wikileaks
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.

TISA Text and Analysis: Transparency Negotiating Text

2 July, 2015
Wikileaks
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 Movement of Natural Persons

2 July, 2015
Wikileaks
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
Wikileaks
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.

Trade in Services Agreement (TISA): Texts and Analysis released by Wikileaks, July 2, 2015

2 July, 2015
Wikileaks
Today, Wednesday July 2, 2015 at 1500 CEST, WikiLeaks continues publishing documents from the secret ongoing TiSA (Trade in Services Agremeent) negotiations, with four Chapters in key areas ahead of the next negotiating round on Monday: Electronic Commerce, Telecommunications Services, Financial Services and Maritime Transport Services.

IU llama a la defensa de la educación pública frente al TiSA

25 July, 2015
tercera informacion
IU llama a la defensa de la educación pública frente al TiSA IU llama a todas las organizaciones comprometidas con la defensa de la educación pública y la democracia a movilizarse para asegurar que el Estado cumpla su responsabilidad como garantes del derecho a la educación impidiendo que acuerdos como el TISA hipotequen en secreto el futuro de la población y su derecho a la educación.

Importante coalición internacional exige grandes cambios en la agenda de la OMC

10 July, 2015
ALERNET
341 organizaciones de la sociedad civil de más de 100 países enviaron una carta a los miembros de la OMC exigiendo que los gobiernos dejen de negociar la agenda equivocada de expansión de la OMC y en su lugar negocien una agenda centrada en la seguridad alimentaria y las necesidades urgentes de desarrollo de los países a favor de normas comerciales que faciliten en lugar de socavar u obstaculizar el desarrollo.

CUPE delegates in Colombia to oppose secret TISA deal

13 July, 2015
Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)
The Frontlines Initiative is a joint project of four national public sector unions - the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and the National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) - which joins forces with sister unions in Colombia to fight against the privatization of public services and to strengthen each other’s struggles to defend human and labour rights. The delegation in Colombia received an important briefing on the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), a proposed international trade treaty that, if ratified, will put public services in Colombia, Canada and 48 other countries at extreme risk.

Post-Bali work programme not doable by end-July, says DG Azevedo

14 July, 2015
TWN Info Service on WTO and Trade Issues (Jul15/09)
Several developing countries on Wednesday (July 8) expressed their frustration with the World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Roberto Azevedo's announcement that the work program with precise modalities for concluding the Doha Development Round (DDR) trade negotiations will not be delivered by end-July.