The site La Quadrature Du Net has a rather comprehensive look at a series of leaked State Department cables that confirm what many people said from the beginning about ACTA: that it was designed by US special interests as an « end run » around existing international intellectual property groups […]
The full cable on this matter makes it clear that the US had a big plan and that plan involved bringing together only « like-minded » countries, and Japan was gleeful about this, but had originally expected the OECD would help.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110203/16214712957/leaked-state-department-cables-confirm-that-acta-was-designed-to-pressure-developing-nations.shtml