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iiclr-21268	Brown, Ronald C.	FTAs in Asia-Pacific: "Next Generation" of Social Dimension Provisions on Labor?	2016	33	.pdf	application/pdf	13270	606	40	The Labor Advisory Committee (“LAC”), comprised of 19 American labor union leaders, strongly opposes the TPP69 as does the International Trade Union Confederation (“ITUC”).70 The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (“AFL –CIO”) shares the reluctance of the ITUC to rely on the agreements’ promises, based on the US- Columbia LAP experience.71 Highlights of the TPP labor provision found in Chapter 1972, with its U.S. model language promoting ILO core labor standards, includes emphasis on not using labor standards for protectionist purposes73 or derogating from its labor standards.74 The TPP also calls for “impartial 67 Ronald C. Brown, Mega-Regionalism: TPP Labor Provisions: A Game Changer? [http://perma.cc/9MYJ-T7SE]. (explaining that while only four percent of trade agreements that entered into force between 1995 and 1999 included labor provisions, this rose to eleven percent between 2000 and 2004; whereas, between 2005 and 2013 about one third of all trade agreements that came into force included labor provisions, and by June 2013, of the 248 trade agreements that were in force (WTO), 58 contained labor provisions) (“In 34 out of those 58 existing trade agreements, the provisions are exclusively promotional, taking the form of cooperative activities between partner countries.)	cache/iiclr-21268.pdf	txt/iiclr-21268.txt