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The P4, formally the "Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement", is a so-called free trade agreement betweeen the four Pacific governments of Brunei Darussalam, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore. It was previously dubbed the P3 until Brunei was incorporated into the negotiating process.
It was signed on 3 June 2005 and came into force on 1 January 2006. In September 2008, the US Trade Representative announced that the US will negotiate entry into the P4 agreement, tentatively starting in March 2009. In November 2008, the governments of Australia, Peru and Vietnam announced their inclusion as well, while the Chilean government is lobbying the Korea government to also join. This raises the spectre of any "P4+" deal evolving into a potentially APEC-wide, comprehensive free trade agreement, which the Obama administration now confirms [International Trade Daily, 5 March 2009]. Some people are cautiously calling the next step "P7" because it will presumably be a Pacific FTA between Australia, Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, Peru, the US and Vietnam. Others, like the USTR, prefer the term "Trans-Pacific Partnership" or "TPP". last updated: March 2009 Articles
New Sierra Club / Public Citizen report on fixes to investment in the TPP
| 12-August-2010
Earlier this week, the Sierra Club, Public Citizen, Institute for Policy Studies, Friends of the Earth and Earthjustice released a new report entitled: "Investment rules in trade agreements: Top 10 changes to build a pro-labor, pro-community and pro-environment Trans-Pacific Partnership."
US official confirms commitment to free trade talks
| 8-August-2010
The United States has confirmed its commitment to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement negotiations, with one of its most senior representatives saying enthusiasm is high and likely to rise.
Malaysian cabinet gives green light to join TPP
| 5-August-2010
The Malaysian Cabinet had given the go-ahead to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and it is now up to the member countries of the regional grouping to decide on Malaysia’s entry. 
Thirty Australian unions and community groups have asked the Trade Minister to safeguard the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, Australian local content in media, regulation of GE food, regulation of foreign investment and industry policies that support local employment in the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA)
RP eyes participation in free trade deal
| 25-July-2010
The Philippines has expressed interest in joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a multilateral free trade deal that involves several economies, including the country’s biggest trading partner, the United States.
IFG and allies rally for "New deal or no deal" at TPP talks in SF
| 23-June-2010
International Forum on Globalisation protest at TPP negotiations in San Francisco 
Most important to the Obama administration’s hope of making its first negotiated trade deal a "21st-century" agreement, enough consensus existed on new issues like harmonizing regulations and supply systems to move toward text.
Trade deal must safeguard our sovereignty
| 16-June-2010
A second round of negotiations towards the Transpacific Partnership Trade Agreement (TPPTA) is taking place this week in San Francisco. New Zealand is one of eight parties along with the US, Australia, Singapore, Chile, Peru, Brunei and Vietnam, and others may join.
US food giants support free trade deal
| 16-June-2010
Key members of the United States food industry have come out in support of comprehensive free trade deal including New Zealand.
Host US under pressure in Asia-Pacific trade talks
| 14-June-2010
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. |
Le stand de l’UE à la conférence sur le sida "saisi" par des militants défenseurs des génériques
| 21-July-2010
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on the U.S.- South Korea Trade Agreement
| 30-June-2010
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