TTIP -- and many corporate-backed international trade agreements -- are deliberately designed to use the excuse of &quot;international negotiations&quot; to get concessions from multiple states that wouldn&#x27;t survive scrutiny through the legislative process in many of the target states, so legislators in all the states can use the &quot;we don&#x27;t really want this bit, but its necessary because the rest of the agreement is good, and we can&#x27;t change one jot or tittle of what has been negotiated&quot; defense to their citizens. Its a product of the same type of corporate-government backdoor influence peddling that domestic legislative transparency provisions like sunshine and open-meeting laws are designed to prevent.