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CPTPP: More freedom for capitalists, more exploitation for workers
22-Feb-2021 Counter Fire
Behind the rhetoric of ‘liberalisation’, the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) is nothing more than vehicle for exploitation and global inequality.
Japan expects Biden to rejoin the TPP
12-Feb-2021 The Diplomat
The US was critical in convincing Japan to join the trade pact. Now Tokyo wants to bring Washington back into the fold.
A new Anglo-Japanese alliance threatens China’s TPP plans
11-Feb-2021 Nikkei Asian Review
As London eyes entry into Quad, Beijing looks to New Zealand for opening.
Australia has a great chance to engage in trade diplomacy with China, and it must take it
9-Feb-2021 The Conversation
Australia’s efforts to end a diplomatic deep freeze with China may not be getting anywhere fast on the surface, but there are nonetheless some signs of a potential thaw.
As UK joins CPTPP hopefuls, S. Korea hurries to prepare application
8-Feb-2021 Hankyoreh
The South Korean government is speeding up its preparations to apply for membership in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) after effectively making official its plans for negotiations to join.
China is readily considering joining CPTPP: commerce ministry
4-Feb-2021 Xinhua
The country is actively conducting research on joining the CPTPP, the Ministry of Commerce said.
How the trade deal Boris Johnson is pursuing threatens workers’ rights
2-Feb-2021 Left Foot Forward
The danger is that the UK Prime Minister is eager to get a deal, so he could accept whatever terms the CPTPP countries demand.
UK to apply to join free trade pact with nations on other side of world
1-Feb-2021 The Guardian
The British government to seek to join 11-nation trans-Pacific partnership, whose nearest member is 3,000 miles away.
UK will apply to trans-Pacific trade bloc before publishing economic impact - officials
28-Jan-2021 Reuters
The move is likely to increase opposition fears that Boris Johnson’s government is using Britain’s exit from the European Union to drive through policy in an opaque way and will rush into trade deals, with unintended consequences.
UK will submit request to join CPTPP trading bloc soon - trade minister
21-Jan-2021 Reuters
Britain will soon submit its application to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) trade bloc, trade minister Liz Truss said.
Government of Canada takes next step in compensating Canada’s dairy farmers
20-Jan-2021 Yahoo
The compensation is valued at $1.75 billion to dairy producers for the market access concessions made under CETA and the CPTPP.
TNCs reviving TPP Frankenstein
18-Jan-2021 Financial Express Bangladesh
Corporate globalisation and Covid-19 should also have taught developing countries that they must reject FTAs strengthening IPRs, ISDS and TNCs in order to secure policy space to ’build back better’.
CPTPP a chance for China to further integrate into Asia-Pacific
18-Jan-2021 China Daily
If both the US and China join the CPTPP, and it becomes the world’s largest free trade agreement, then the RCEP would recede in significance. CPTPP, comprising both the US and China, sensing more economic benefits in committing to the RCEP.
South Korea to ’actively’ consider joining CPTPP this year
11-Jan-2021 The Edge Markets
South Korea said today it plans to "actively" consider joining a mega Asia-Pacific free trade agreement (FTA) initiated again by the US in an effort to diversify the country’s export portfolio amid growing trade protectionism.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Intellectual property and trade in the Pacific rim
7-Jan-2021 Edward Elgar
This book considers the impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership [TPP] on intellectual property and trade.
Japan, Mexico agree to expand membership of TPP free trade pact
5-Jan-2021 The Mainichi
Britain, China and South Korea have recently shown interest in joining the TPP, while Japanese officials are keeping close tabs on whether Washington will return to the framework.
With eye on China, Japan refuses to ease TPP rules for new members
21-Dec-2020 Nikkei Asia
TPP-11 has suddenly turned into something of an exclusive club that nations are clamoring to get in. But next year’s chair of the trade pact, Japan, will be the gatekeeper upholding the strictest standards.
UK signs continuity trade deal with Mexico, keeps EU benefits
16-Dec-2020 Bloomberg
The UK signed a continuity trade deal with Mexico, its 31st-largest trading partner, preserving the benefits of the accord it had with the country through European Union membership.
UK starts new trade ties with Asia post-Brexit
14-Dec-2020 The Asset
Britain hopes Singapore and Vietnam deals will bring it closer to joining Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Moon: S. Korea to consider joining CPTPP to expand its free trade network
8-Dec-2020 Yonhap
President Moon Jae-in said that South Korea is considering becoming a member of a major Asia-Pacific free trade agreement, known as the CPTPP.