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The WTO isn't able to do that, which is why there's a TPP and TTIP in the first place. The WTO is perceived as impossible to reach agreement through.


The WTO did accomplish this for several decades, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_World_Trade_... and it would be worthwhile to understand why public interest stakeholders have been excluded from TPP.

Excluding public stakeholders from the development of legislation will not make their issues disappear, it will only force those concerns into alternate vehicles of expression, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consent_of_the_governed


The Doha round was widely seen as a gridlocked failure, and the other large regional FTAs (NAFTA, for instance) aren't WTO agreements either, are they?




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