Spocko is also correct on the food issue. The technical term for that requirement to accept the food that meets the other countries’ standards, not our is “equivalence.” We know that this is in TPP because the SPS (Sanitary and Phytosanitary) chapter (food standards) is one of those that had its rules completed some months ago. If you want to see technically how this works (and amendment in a trade agt’s implementing legislation to US meat and poultry laws that used to require only meat produced under conditions EQUAL to US standards got replaced with the equivalence standard for several dozen countries thanks to past “trade” agreements, check out his study. http://www.citizen.org/documents/PCfoodsafety.pdf
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