The leaked text of the TiSA Annex on Environmental Services "confirms many of the fears about the agreement’s potential use to roll back regulatory safeguards related to the environment and to inhibit the promulgation of new environmental measures to protect people and the planet," Friends of the Earth said in its assessment.
The group said TiSA risks "harmonized down" environmental regulations in the interest of simplifying trade.
Aiming to privatize an estimated 70 percent of the world’s services economy and free itself of the WTO’s General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), TiSA incorporates a total of 24 parties, including the United States and the European Union.
"Together, the three treaties form not only a new legal order hospitable for transnational corporations, but a new economic ‘grand enclosure,’ which excludes China and all other BRICS countries," WikiLeaks said in a press release.
In July, WikiLeaks uploaded 17 documents from TiSA negotiations ahead of negotiations scheduled that month.
Critics say TISA attempts to eliminate trade barriers in sectors favorable to Washington but not in areas where liberalization does not serve US interests.
Uruguay and Paraquay announced in September that they had decided to pull out of the multilateral negotiations.
