The stated goal of this policy is to facilitate negotiations. But, as US Senator Elizabeth Warren has put it, this gets it exactly backwards: If transparency would make it harder to sell the final product to the public, it raises serious questions about the desirability of what is being negotiated.
最后，尤其让这些协定招致批评的是谈判的隐秘性。相关协定的草案都并未公开给公众审查，仅有的几个被允许参与谈判的局外人都被禁止透露相关内容。对外宣称这一做法是为了加速谈判的进程。但正如美国参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦（Elizabeth Warren）所指出的那样，这也为其带来了明确的副作用：如果公开透明会导致公众更难以接纳最终出台的产物，那就得好好质问一下这些谈判究竟怀着何种目的。