Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
24-Jan-2018
Australian Financial Review
Its resurrection represents a critical step towards building a trading system in which Washington's abandonment of the region doesn't immediately fall uncontested into China's hands.
24-Jan-2018
Unifor
The TPP failed to meaningfully address the negative consequences of greater trade and investment liberalization, including rising inequality, environmental sustainability, job displacement and lower work standards.
23-Jan-2018
Reuters
Eleven countries aiming to forge a new Asia-Pacific trade pact after the United States pulled out of an earlier version will hold a signing ceremony in Chile in March.
22-Jan-2018
Reuters
Trade officials gathered in Japan for two days of talks to try to forge a trade pact that U.S. President Donald Trump abandoned last year, but the new 11-member club risks getting bogged down by resistance from Canada.
19-Jan-2018
Wire Service
Taiwanese President is asking that Canada advocates for Taiwan's inclusion in the second round of the TPP meetings and to begin negotiations on a Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement deal with Canada.
18-Jan-2018
The Conversation
Donald Trump is flexing the United States’ economic muscle in East Asia by introducing a web of new-generation bilateral trade deals to contain China’s challenge. But Beijing is fighting back by political means.
18-Jan-2018
Australian Financial Review
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is prepared to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal with or without Canada and Mexico
18-Jan-2018
Nikkei
Cultural and auto issues remain obstacles to reviving Pacific trade pact.
17-Jan-2018
East Asia Forum
The broad and deep Australia–Japan relationship has never been more important to both countries’ interests in the world, and the relationship between the two leaders aims to preserve the rules-based order on which both countries rely.
17-Jan-2018
FMT News
Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) said it would fight all trade agreements that it considered unfair and only favoured big corporations, including a new regional economic partnership that is set to replace the US-sponsored Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA).