Tillis Attacks USTR Over Seeking Carveout For Anti-Tobacco Rules In TPP

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) in a July 30 floor speech charged that the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is seeking to protect anti-tobacco regulations from challenges under the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which he said is unfair to a major U.S. export important to his and other states. "Our negotiators have concluded that while some investors are entitled to equal treatment under the law, others are not," he charged in his floor speech...