TTIP trade talks continue under veil of secrecy in miami - official
A trade official from America’s largest labor union said that chief
negotiators of TTIP agreement persisted to show contempt for
transparency in Miami this week by failing to provide any meaningful
details to the deal’s most critical stakeholders.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik), Michael Hughes — Chief negotiators of the
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreement
persisted to show contempt for transparency in Miami this week by
failing to provide any meaningful details to the deal’s most critical
stakeholders, a trade official from America’s largest labor union told
Sputnik.
On Monday, the week-long eleventh round of TTIP talks got underway in
Miami, Florida, during which negotiators are supposed to finalize the
precise language of the agreement.
"They [TTIP negotiators] do a great job of keeping their text and
what they are working on a secret," American Federation of Labor and
Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) Trade Policy Specialist
Celeste Drake told Sputnik on Wednesday.
Drake, who has been on the ground meeting with negotiators in Miami
since Monday, provided Sputnik a window into the murky world of how
international trade agreements are consummated and how adept the primary
interlocutors are at protecting information.
