ISDS Case Map
CPTPP
Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
President Ma Ying-jeou said Thursday that his government will work hard to create the conditions for Taiwan to participate in the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership at an appropriate time.
The United States remains open to including China in a Pacific free-trade zone, Washington's top trade official said less than a week after Japan asked to join the negotiations.
Japan’s bid to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations may make it easier for it to import liquefied natural gas from the United States, a prospect that is raising the hackles of environmental groups.
Effects of joining TPP mixed / Though imports would become cheaper, some fear threats to food safety
How would livelihoods in Japan be changed by membership in the TPP? View from the Yomiuri Shimbun
At the close of the 10-day 16th round of Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations on March 13, 2013, in Singapore, the Office of the United States Trade Representative reported that the talks had been placed on an accelerated track toward conclusion of the trade agreement this year.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may sacrifice barriers protecting Japan’s beef and wheat farmers as he joins the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks, said a former government adviser on farm policy.
Japan will announce its participation in talks to forge a US-backed free trade deal on Friday, an official said, giving the pact much-needed economic clout, but possibly angering farmers at home.
The TPP negotiators are making decisions that will affect at least 600 million people, and potentially hundreds of millions more, in complete secrecy, and this is unacceptable.
Japan’s largest farm group rallied Tuesday in Tokyo to protest against the government’s entry into the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade talks.
Some 1,500 farmers in the northernmost Japan prefecture of Hokkaido held a mass rally on Monday against the country joining Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade negotiations.
