The Trans-Pacific Partnership is finally dead!

11/13/2016 - 16:11

David Kravets | Image: Activist Post


The Trans-Pacific Partnership, a proposed and controversial 12-nation trade pact dealing with everything from intellectual property to human rights, effectively died Friday. Congressional leaders from both parties told the White House they would no longer consider it with a lame duck president, even one who staunchly backed the plan.

Among the reasons the deal was relevant to Ars readers is because of how it treated intellectual property.

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