CPTPP

Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership

US, partners set target for TransPacific trade deal
The United States and eight other Asia Pacific countries agreed on Thursday to strive for the "broad outlines" of a free trade pact by the time President Barack Obama hosts a regional summit in Hawaii in November.
28 Senators write Obama urging strong IP chapter in Trans Pacific Partnership
A group of 28 US Senators has written President Obama urging his administration to include “the highest level of IP protections” in the Trans Pacific Partnership.
Fears for FTA as Japan stalls on Pacific bloc: a US-backed trade group is heading for the 'too hard' basket
Japan has finally admitted it will not be able to decide by next month whether it should join the emerging US-backed trade bloc, the Trans Pacific Partnership.
Groser optimistic about TPP progress
Trade Minister Tim Groser is optimistic key elements of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement will be hammered out at a meeting of Apec trade ministers in the United States this week.
FTA talks with EU and TPP progressing well, says Trade Minister Lim
Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang said Singapore's negotiations for Free Trade Agreements with the European Union and the nine-member Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are progressing well since talks began last year.
Japan should join TPP to boost reconstruction
The government should promptly decide to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement and implement bold agricultural reforms in the disaster-hit Tohoku region, writes the Yomiuri Shimbun
Pharmac under fire ahead of US free-trade talks
Some of New Zealand's most prominent businesspeople are rallying to the support of drug buying body Pharmac as lobbying firm Saunders Unsworth mounts a campaign against the agency ahead of free trade negotiations with the US.
TPPA under fire over human rights
The controversial Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) is under fire over human rights issues.
ISPs targeted in Pacific trade agreement
Representatives from Australia's internet industry have called for full disclosure of a proposed free trade agreement between the United States and its allies in the Pacific, concerned that the deal asks ISPs to shoulder onerous burdens around copyright infringement.
PhRMA calls for strong IP protection for biologics in TPP FTA
US pharmaceutical industry association the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America is calling on the US Trade Representative to include strong intellectual property provisions, such as 12-year data protection for follow-on biologics, in the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement.