ISDS Case Map
CPTPP
Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
Vietnam's Free Trade Agreement with the European Union and the Trans Pacific Partnership would collectively give China access to markets worth $44 trillion in combined gross domestic product.
The most important and defining factor for the fate of the TPP is that social pressure against the agreement within in the TPP negotiating countries grows.
Brushing off vocal protests by opposition lawmakers, Prime Minister Abe’s ruling coalition passed a bill to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement at a special Lower House committee, sparking criticism that it resorted to a steamroll vote.
MITI Secretary-General Jayashiri says government is in the process of amending laws to support the trade pact and have identified 18 thus far.
After a new round of calls for the resignation of Japan’s gaffe-prone agricultural minister, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling coalition gave up trying to pass a bill to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement through a special Lower House committee.
Only 38 per cent of Japanese want to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, according to a survey, showing a growing public distrust of free trade agreements.
The TPP would fuel displacement and fail migrant workers
FTAs operate as extensions of the WTO resulting in decentralized and yet intensifying attacks against workers and peasants across the different global regions.
Vietnam's decision to hold off ratifying the Trans-Pacific Partnership is a further blow to the beleaguered trade pact and a setback for American economic ambitions in Asia.
Chemical products and cheese top the list of Swiss exports endangered by a proposed trade deal between the European Union and the United States, a government agency reported on Thursday.
