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CPTPP
Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
The US has agreed to hold direct engagements with key stakeholders on Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), according to the Malay business lobby group Malay Economic Action Council (MTEM) today.
US Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker said she thinks the US and 11 other nations brokering an Asia-Pacific trade deal will reach an agreement they can send to the US Congress this year.
Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir said Malaysia should not feel pressured into signing the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) just because of President Barack Obama’s visit to Malaysia this weekend.
Malaysia is hopeful that the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) will shape up as a broad-based free trade agreement in the Asia-Pacific region with the eventual outcome of the negotiations taking into account its interests and concerns.
La visite de Barack Obama au Japon, qui s'achevait vendredi, n'a pas permis d'aboutir à la conclusion d'un accord commercial entre Washington et Tokyo mais a été marquée par la réaffirmation du soutien américain face aux ambitions chinoises.
The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) has called on the Malaysian government to inform the United States President that Malaysia will be withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement when Mr. Barack Obama visits Malaysia later this week.
The US yesterday reiterated its support for Taiwan’s bid to join negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), saying it welcomed the nation’s interest in the proposed regional trade bloc.
Far from being a means to open up the world to a further intensification of trade, TPP and TTIP will carve up the world into two or more power blocs waging economic war with one another.
Bayan is coordinating with various anti-bases and anti-globalization groups in Japan, South Korea and the United States for a series of protests against the US pivot and the TPPA.
By luring South Korea into the TPP, the activist said, the US hopes to bring about all of the things that it failed to achieve under the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement (KORUS-FTA).
