This past Wednesday in the wake of Wikileaks publishing a draft of the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Ohio State chapter of United Students for Fair Trade (USFT) paid a visit to Pat Tiberi’s (R-Ohio) office in Westerville. "We're delivering a letter to Pat Tiberi asking him to not support fast track for the Trans-Pacific Parntership," said Taylor Picorelli, 3rd year in Business/ Environment, Economy, Development, & Sustainability (EEDS). Though Congress has the ultimate authority to negotiate international trade, the TPP is currently on the “fast track,” meaning that President Barack Obama could have the power to sign the agreement into law before Congress approves it. The delegation of Ohio State students visited the district office of U.S. Rep. Tiberi to deliver a letter urging the congressman to join the over 150 members of Congress demanding transparency in the TPP negotiations. "The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a huge threat to democracy and human rights," said Sara Stanger, 3rd year International Studies major and President of the OSU chapter of USFT. "It would have negative global implications for food safety regulations, intellectual property rights and environmental regulations.” The agreement is currently being negotiated behind closed doors by The U.S, Canada, Mexico and Pacific Rim nations (such as Australia, Canada, Chile, Mexico, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, Brunei Darussalam, and Japan) and is riddled with provisions which would overhaul international trade and hurt everyone in the process, unless you happen to be a CEO of a multi-billion dollar corporation. In addition, Wikileaks published the Intellectual Property Rights Chapter of the TPP, which would have wide-ranging effects on medicines, publishers, internet services, civil liberties and biological patents. If you remember SOPA (the “Stop Online Piracy Act”) a few years ago, this is it, but on an international scale. These are only a few of the issues with the TPP. There are unanswered questions regarding how labor rights would be enforced globally, how tax money would be procured in local economies, accessibility to affordable medicine and how agriculture/local farms would be impacted. As Picorelli inquired, "I think that if this is something good for us, then why the lack of transparency?" The TPP would also elevate individual multi-national corporations to equal status with nation states by allowing them to sue a government if they believe a policy infringes on their rights to make money. That’s right, corporations would become sovereign nations. "In giving transnational corporations special rights to challenge policies that threaten profits, the Obama Administration is undermining the ability of the youth movement to shape their future." stated Aminah Raazi, OSU student and member of USFT. Students continue to be a key component toward fighting for fair trade, as the delegation to Rep. Tiberi’s office showed. United Students for Fair Trade will continue to organize against the Trans-Pacific Partnership nationally and in the heartland of Ohio to defend justice and dignity for people in the increasingly globalized world. Correction: The original article stated "The agreement is currently being negotiated behind closed doors by the United States, European Union and other nations comprising 40 percent of the global economy" which is incorrect. The agreement is between The U.S, Canada, Mexico and Pacific Rim nations (such as Australia, Canada, Chile, Mexico, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, Brunei Darussalam, and Japan) and does not involved the E.U.