Below are Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests filed by KEI related to issues concerning the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic. This page will be updated as we file requests and receive responses. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease… Continue Reading
Below you will find the daily calendars of US Trade Representative Michael Froman from 2013 to 2016. These schedules were obtained by KEI via FOIA request to USTR. 2013 Calendar USTR Michael Froman 2014 Calendar USTR Michael Froman 2015 Calendar… Continue Reading
Here you will find the daily calendars of Deputy USTR Robert W. Holleyman II from 2014 to 2016. These schedules were obtained by KEI via FOIA request to USTR. Note: The 2016 calendar ends July 13, 2016, the file date… Continue Reading
Here you will find the daily calendars of Deputy USTR Michael Punke from 2013 to 2016. These schedules were obtained by KEI via FOIA request to USTR. Note: The 2016 calendar ends July 13, 2016, the file date of the… Continue Reading
The following PDF file includes several email exchanges between Pfizer and USTR regarding Colombia’s accession to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Pfizer proposed several conditions it wanted Colombia to agree to before the US would withdraw objections… Continue Reading
Update: the NIH has rejected our request for expedited processing of the FOIA, on the grounds that KEI did not demonstrate “that there exists an urgency to inform the public” about the costs of the NIH CAR T or mesothelin… Continue Reading
In the area of Transparency, KEI works on several different topics, including for example: Norm setting. KEI has advocated access to meeting venues, timely disclosures of negotiating texts, and the use of webcasting of meetings, among other measures. Trade negotiations… Continue Reading
Earlier this year, IP-Watch submitted two FOIA requests to USTR about the TPP negotiation. I am attaching two letters from USTR to IP-Watch about the FOIAs, and a file with 127 pages of emails between USTR and various industry lobbyists. (USTR provided KEI with copies of the files provdied to IP-Watch as part a separate KEI FOIA to USTR regarding communications involving the TPP).
A lot has clearly been withheld by USTR. According to USTR’s June 19, 2013 letter to IP-Watch
What type of leverage has the Obama Administration used to pressure Thailand to prevent the granting of compulsory licenses on drug patents? The US Department of Commerce has just released a FOIA request with 298 pages of documents on this topic. 136 pages of the FOIA are for a Fall 2010 masters theses by Stephanie Tranchevent Rosenberg (pages 36 to 171 of the FOIA). Continue Reading