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TTIP stands for Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

You have to worry about TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership)

The Trans-Pacific Partnership may turn out to be the worst trade agreement in decades http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/10/in-2016-bett...

I don't think it has any direct affect on those areas. Australasia has TPP, Canada has NAFTA.

There's also a similar deal to the TTIP called CETA that Canada are involved in:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Economic_and_Tra...

As far as I know there are roughly 5 multinational trade deals in the works at the moment... TPP, TTIP, TISA, CETA and one more I forgot the name of that involves China.

EDIT: The multinational trade deal currently being negotiated that involves China is the RCEP:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Comprehensive_Economi...

Canada signed the TPP too. Didn't want to be left out and all that...

Nobody knows what's in it because it's being kept secret.