U.S. Negotiates IP Side Letters To Gain Support For TPP Pharmaceutical Demands

Waikoloa, HAWAII – The United States is in the process of bilaterally negotiating secret side letters with several Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) countries, including Chile, that would provide them with favorable clarifications on key intellectual property (IP) issues in return for their cooperation in setting stringent IP rules in a final deal, according to informed sources. Some sources said this side letter effort appears to be part of a “divide and conquer” strategy by U.S. negotiators intended to splinter what was...