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Secretive trade talks heading to Singapore

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"The U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) is en route to Singapore to finalize a new international agreement that has the potential to lock in our intellectual property laws to 95 pages of standards that have never been officially released to the public. Those standards are being included in an intellectual property chapter of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) - a broad new international law governing trade and domestic regulations in 12 pacific rim countries - and intended to ultimately bind the whole world."