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TTIP Corporate Empowerment Map
The 81,000 Companies that Could Attack Clean Water Safeguards, Green Energy Policies and Wall Street Reforms
A “trade” deal only in name, the controversial
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership would grant foreign firms the power to directly attack domestic health, financial, environmental and other public interest policies that they view as undermining new foreign investor privileges and rights that TTIP would establish. TTIP would empower individual foreign corporations to drag the U.S. and European Union (EU) governments before extrajudicial tribunals, comprised of three private attorneys, that would be authorized to order unlimited taxpayer compensation for domestic policies or government actions seen as frustrating the corporations' "expectations." The amount would be based on the "expected future profits" the tribunal surmises that the corporation would have earned in the absence of the public policy it is attacking.
This extreme “investor-state” system already has been included in a series of U.S. "free trade" agreements, forcing taxpayers to hand more than $440 million to corporations for toxics bans, land-use rules, regulatory permits, water and timber policies and more. Just under U.S. pacts, more than $34 billion remains pending in corporate claims against medicine patent policies, pollution cleanup requirements, climate and energy laws, and other public interest polices. The EU is proposing for TTIP an even more radical version of investor privileges than that found in past U.S. pacts.
TTIP would triple the United States’ exposure to investor-state attacks against U.S. policies. TTIP would newly empower more than 3,500 EU parent corporations, which own more than 26,000 U.S. subsidiaries, to launch investor-state cases against the U.S. government. A mere 18 EU parent corporations currently have that power under existing U.S. pacts. Even if you count all corporations in all countries covered by U.S. investor-state pacts, the combined number of firms that can currently launch investor-state cases against the U.S. government is about 1,300 firms (which own about 10,000 U.S. subsidiaries). In one fell swoop,TTIP would roughly triple U.S. investor-state liability.
TTIP would also expose the EU to a potential wave of investor-state cases from any of the more than 19,000 U.S.-based corporations that own more than 54,000 subsidiaries in the EU. About nine out of ten of these corporations would by newly empowered by TTIP to launch investor-state cases against EU governments.
Below are the maps of the locations of multinational corporations that would get these new privileges if TTIP would take effect. Zoom in using the "+" button to see which corporations could challenge zoning, environmental and other local policies in your community. Click on the dots to see the names of the corporations and their industry. The color of the marker indicates the country of the parent company. The red lines on the map are the borders of the districts of the U.S. House of Representatives. Click here for a full list of companies based in EU countries that operate in the United States, sorted by congressional district.
In the official document outlining TTIP, the Obama administration has made clear that TTIP will not primarily target trade, but "behind-the-border" policies such as health, environmental and financial protections. U.S. and European corporations call these safeguards on which we all rely "trade irritants," and have asked that they be eliminated via TTIP:
European agribusiness corporations have listed U.S. safety standards for Grade A milk as an “obstacle” that they hope can be removed via TTIP. They acknowledge that the standards “were devised as a means of addressing the risk of food borne illnesses,” but express hope the standards can be weakened because complying with them “is both highly cumbersome and expensive.”
European banks have openly targeted U.S. financial regulations enacted after the 2008 financial crisis to rein in Wall Street, calling the new financial stability policies "barriers to trade" that should be watered down via TTIP.
The deregulatory wishlists of European and U.S. corporations reveal that the deal could also threaten climate policies, food safety labels, chemical safeguards, Buy Local preferences and data privacy.
Incredibly, Obama administration officials, and their European counterparts, have also proposed that TTIP include the extreme investor privileges of past "trade" deals. These extraordinary privileges have empowered multinational corporations to circumvent domestic courts and drag sovereign governments before extrajudicial tribunals authorized to order taxpayer compensation for public interest policies. But U.S. and European domestic courts and property laws are among the strongest in the world. Including such provisions in TTIP would only empower corporations with a new way to attack our laws and grab our tax dollars.
Multinational corporations have used these privileges when included in past "trade" deals to attack domestic renewable energy policies, patent standards, bans on toxins, and green jobs programs, extracting more than $3 billion so far from taxpayers under U.S. deals. The multinational tribunals authorized to rule against such domestic policies and order compensation are comprised of three private attorneys, many of whom rotate between acting as "judges" and bringing cases against the governments on behalf of the corporations.
If this extreme system is expanded through TTIP as proposed, the thousands of European corporations with U.S. subsidiaries (and vice versa) would be newly empowered to attack domestic health, environmental and financial safeguards that they claim frustrate their expectations. The tribunals would be authorized to order taxpayer compensation to the multinational corporations for the "expected future profits" they surmise would be inhibited by the challenged policies. This radical provision alone makes TTIP an unacceptable liability for consumers, workers and the environment.
Factsheets: TTIP's Threats
to Consumers and the Environment
The corporations advising TTIP negotiators have bluntly named the consumer and environmental safeguards that the deal should dismantle:
TTIP's Top Ten Threats to U.S. Consumers
Wall Street: Roll Back Financial Reforms
Agribusiness: Weaken Food Safety Standards
Oil and Gas Corporations: Halt Green Energy Policies
Monsanto, et al: Remove GMO Labels and Limits
Chemical Corporations: Allow Exposure to Untested Chemicals
Transnational Corporations: Empower Investor Attacks on Safeguards
Chronic Job Offshorers: Ban Buy American, Buy Local and Buy Green Policies
Corporate think tanks: Debunking Bogus Claims of TTIP Economic Gains
You said all this is just fine ok:
TTIP Corporate Empowerment Map
The 81,000 Companies that Could Attack Clean Water Safeguards, Green Energy Policies and Wall Street Reforms
A “trade” deal only in name, the controversial
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership would grant foreign firms the power to directly attack domestic health, financial, environmental and other public interest policies that they view as undermining new foreign investor privileges and rights that TTIP would establish. TTIP would empower individual foreign corporations to drag the U.S. and European Union (EU) governments before extrajudicial tribunals, comprised of three private attorneys, that would be authorized to order unlimited taxpayer compensation for domestic policies or government actions seen as frustrating the corporations' "expectations." The amount would be based on the "expected future profits" the tribunal surmises that the corporation would have earned in the absence of the public policy it is attacking.
This extreme “investor-state” system already has been included in a series of U.S. "free trade" agreements, forcing taxpayers to hand more than $440 million to corporations for toxics bans, land-use rules, regulatory permits, water and timber policies and more. Just under U.S. pacts, more than $34 billion remains pending in corporate claims against medicine patent policies, pollution cleanup requirements, climate and energy laws, and other public interest polices. The EU is proposing for TTIP an even more radical version of investor privileges than that found in past U.S. pacts.
TTIP would triple the United States’ exposure to investor-state attacks against U.S. policies. TTIP would newly empower more than 3,500 EU parent corporations, which own more than 26,000 U.S. subsidiaries, to launch investor-state cases against the U.S. government. A mere 18 EU parent corporations currently have that power under existing U.S. pacts. Even if you count all corporations in all countries covered by U.S. investor-state pacts, the combined number of firms that can currently launch investor-state cases against the U.S. government is about 1,300 firms (which own about 10,000 U.S. subsidiaries). In one fell swoop,TTIP would roughly triple U.S. investor-state liability.
TTIP would also expose the EU to a potential wave of investor-state cases from any of the more than 19,000 U.S.-based corporations that own more than 54,000 subsidiaries in the EU. About nine out of ten of these corporations would by newly empowered by TTIP to launch investor-state cases against EU governments.
Below are the maps of the locations of multinational corporations that would get these new privileges if TTIP would take effect. Zoom in using the "+" button to see which corporations could challenge zoning, environmental and other local policies in your community. Click on the dots to see the names of the corporations and their industry. The color of the marker indicates the country of the parent company. The red lines on the map are the borders of the districts of the U.S. House of Representatives. Click here for a full list of companies based in EU countries that operate in the United States, sorted by congressional district.
In the official document outlining TTIP, the Obama administration has made clear that TTIP will not primarily target trade, but "behind-the-border" policies such as health, environmental and financial protections. U.S. and European corporations call these safeguards on which we all rely "trade irritants," and have asked that they be eliminated via TTIP:
European agribusiness corporations have listed U.S. safety standards for Grade A milk as an “obstacle” that they hope can be removed via TTIP. They acknowledge that the standards “were devised as a means of addressing the risk of food borne illnesses,” but express hope the standards can be weakened because complying with them “is both highly cumbersome and expensive.”
European banks have openly targeted U.S. financial regulations enacted after the 2008 financial crisis to rein in Wall Street, calling the new financial stability policies "barriers to trade" that should be watered down via TTIP.
The deregulatory wishlists of European and U.S. corporations reveal that the deal could also threaten climate policies, food safety labels, chemical safeguards, Buy Local preferences and data privacy.
Incredibly, Obama administration officials, and their European counterparts, have also proposed that TTIP include the extreme investor privileges of past "trade" deals. These extraordinary privileges have empowered multinational corporations to circumvent domestic courts and drag sovereign governments before extrajudicial tribunals authorized to order taxpayer compensation for public interest policies. But U.S. and European domestic courts and property laws are among the strongest in the world. Including such provisions in TTIP would only empower corporations with a new way to attack our laws and grab our tax dollars.
Multinational corporations have used these privileges when included in past "trade" deals to attack domestic renewable energy policies, patent standards, bans on toxins, and green jobs programs, extracting more than $3 billion so far from taxpayers under U.S. deals. The multinational tribunals authorized to rule against such domestic policies and order compensation are comprised of three private attorneys, many of whom rotate between acting as "judges" and bringing cases against the governments on behalf of the corporations.
If this extreme system is expanded through TTIP as proposed, the thousands of European corporations with U.S. subsidiaries (and vice versa) would be newly empowered to attack domestic health, environmental and financial safeguards that they claim frustrate their expectations. The tribunals would be authorized to order taxpayer compensation to the multinational corporations for the "expected future profits" they surmise would be inhibited by the challenged policies. This radical provision alone makes TTIP an unacceptable liability for consumers, workers and the environment.
Factsheets: TTIP's Threats
to Consumers and the Environment
The corporations advising TTIP negotiators have bluntly named the consumer and environmental safeguards that the deal should dismantle:
TTIP's Top Ten Threats to U.S. Consumers
Wall Street: Roll Back Financial Reforms
Agribusiness: Weaken Food Safety Standards
Oil and Gas Corporations: Halt Green Energy Policies
Monsanto, et al: Remove GMO Labels and Limits
Chemical Corporations: Allow Exposure to Untested Chemicals
Transnational Corporations: Empower Investor Attacks on Safeguards
Chronic Job Offshorers: Ban Buy American, Buy Local and Buy Green Policies
Corporate think tanks: Debunking Bogus Claims of TTIP Economic Gains
