The states signing the agreement are: Iowa, Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
The effort was bipartisan, and, at the beginning, all but four states signed on to it.
The Union and 22 member states signed ACTA on Jan . 26in Tokyo.
In October all member states signed up to Mr Mandelson's review of trade defences.
Thirteen states signed on to fight that directive, including three involved in the latest lawsuit.
The financial transfer is part of a settlement the two states signed in May.
Eight states signed on to the lawsuit seeking to block the $37bn Aetna-Humana merger.
The remaining states signed school funding deals with the Abbott government.
When and if enough states sign on to account for 271, bingo.
Some of these states signed the treaty in the early 1990s: South Africa signed in 1991, followed by France and China in 1992.
Over time, most states signed contracts, one of the largest transfers of state functions to private industry.
