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CPTPP
Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
The pros and cons of two trade agreements in the works, TPP and TTIP, from a US perspective.
The Bantah TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) agreement organisation expressed disappointment vis-à-vis the Malaysian negotiators, saying they are cowing to the Americans in the last rounds of the highly secretive trade talks.
"We are in a position to hold up the whole TPP to advance agriculture," says Alan Oxley, Australian APEC Study Centre chairman.
Taiwan is building up a free trade zone to counter the threat of being marginalised in the wake of trade deals being negotiated by major economies and regional Asian neighbours (TPP and RCEP).
"The Australian government agreed to a confidentiality undertaking to prevent the early release of TPP negotiating documents," says current Minister for Trade Andrew Robb
The Office of the US Trade Representative is demanding that Seoul address four major trade issues before participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Japan and the United States, which have been in bitter conflict over thorny issues including Japanese tariffs on farm products as well as auto trade, failed to fill the gaps during the key session in Singapore, hampering the whole negotiation.
A new set of leaked documents from the latest round of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations show large differences remain between the 12 nations trying to hammer out a trade agreement.
"At this point in time, we do not need a TRIPS plus trade agreement, we need
a TRIPS minus agreement."
In mid-November, Wikileaks released the secret draft text for the Intellectual Property Rights Chapter of the TPP. Stuart Trew talks about what this leak tells us about the agreement as a whole.
