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CPTPP
Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
Key members of the United States food industry have come out in support of comprehensive free trade deal including New Zealand.
Food giants Nestle and Walmart are among 26 signatories to a letter to the US Trade Representative and Department of Agriculture. In it, they warn protecting US special interests in negotiations could cost its exporters free access to other TPP countries' markets.
Trade negotiators from the United States, Vietnam and six other Asia Pacific nations meet in San Francisco this week for work on a free-trade agreement that US trade officials say could transform the region.
Forum and rally against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in San Francisco, California, on 14 June 2010
The Obama administration is pressing ahead with trade expansion in the Asia-Pacific region, even as it struggles to build consensus with labor and business groups.
A new website, "Trans-Pacific Partnership Digest", has been launched to provide a comprehensive data base of material on the negotiations for a Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement involving New Zealand, the US, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. The second round of negotiations will take place in San Francisco next week.
While the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement continues to languish, US President Barack Obama is energetically pursuing a new US trade agreement with Asia -- the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
The United States said Thursday it was keen for Malaysia to enter negotiations on a trans-Pacific trade deal after the two countries shelved talks on a bilateral agreement.
In March, the United States Ambassador to Malaysia James Keith indicated that Malaysia should participate in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement; a new regionalisation project that intends to expand the existing Pacific-4 Free Trade Agreement (P4 FTA).
As the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) train begins to chug along the track a little faster, more countries are signaling that they want to jump on the bandwagon. Last month Colombia indicated its interest in joining the TPP talks and now Malaysia and Canada are doing the same.
