Secrecy around TPP trade deal fuels suspicions and worries

WASHINGTON, D.C: Higher costs for needed generic drugs. Longer copyright protections than the global standard. Foreign investors empowered to overrule governments. A more tightly-regulated Internet.

Those are just some of the potential pitfalls from any deal that could emerge from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the 12-country free-trade and investment pact shrouded in secrecy as negotiations head into the final stage in Hawaii next week.