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Prospects for the United Kingdom’s CPTPP accession
1-Feb-2022 East Asia Forum
The United Kingdom’s accession is more about political ends than it is about economic gains.
Taiwan’s dual challenges in joining the CPTPP
31-Jan-2022 MENAFN
Since both Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China announced their intentions to join the CPTPP in September 2021, discussions about their relative chances of success have largely centered around a binary construct.
UK-Australia free trade agreement - the first from scratch
28-Jan-2022 Lexology
What will the FTA achieve? What does it cover? What are its key impacts?
Taiwan considers lifting ban on Japanese food imports to improve odds of joining CPTPP
24-Jan-2022 The Straits Times
Taiwan looks set to lift a long-standing ban on imports of food products from five Japanese prefectures as it seeks to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.
New Zealand cheers Canada’s loss in dairy dispute and calls for ’significant reform’
18-Jan-2022 Financial Post
Canada has repeatedly broken its promise to let foreign cheese and butter flow more freely into the country, officials say
S. Korea to submit application for CPTPP in April: finance minister
17-Jan-2022 Korea Herald
South Korea will push to submit an official application to join a mega Asia-Pacific free trade agreement in April.
Japan, Singapore vow to keep TPP free trade pact’s high standards
12-Jan-2022 Kyodo News
Trade ministers of Japan and Singapore pledged to maintain the high standards of market access and rules of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal, which China and Taiwan made a bid to join last year.
Ecuador applies to join CPTPP trade pact
4-Jan-2022 NHK
Ecuador has become the latest country to apply for membership in the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, or CPTPP.
Taiwan votes against referendums on US trade in major setback for opposition
20-Dec-2021 France 24
The Taiwanese government hopes the result will bolster its case to join the CPTPP and remove a stumbling block for a free trade deal with the United States.
Korea is taking the plunge on the CPTPP
13-Dec-2021 Korea JoongAng Daily
Korea is taking the first steps to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), a multilateral free trade agreement involving 11 other nations.
Thai civil society urges government to end plans to join CPTPP
7-Dec-2021 Thai PBS World
Thailand’s anti-CPTPP civil society organizations issued an open letter, addressed to Prime Minister, urging the government immediately to cease plans to join the 11-member CPTPP trade bloc.
The geopolitics of China’s CPTPP move
3-Dec-2021 Bangkok Post
Nowhere is the intersection between geopolitics and geoeconomics more evident than the accession negotiations under the 11-member Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Thailand plans to join talks on trans-Pacific trade pact membership
23-Nov-2021 Reuters
Thailand aims to join talks on membership of a trans-Pacific free-trade agreement, a government official said.
The CPTPP isn’t just a trade deal for Taiwan, it’s a survival plan
22-Nov-2021 East Asia Forum
Taipei could not afford to wait to request entry once Beijing got in the game. Yet the CPTPP is at the heart of mapping out Taiwan’s long-term survival, not just a means to remain competitive in global markets.
Waitangi Tribunal claimants win on TPPA and data sovereignty
19-Nov-2021 Voxy
The Tribunal agrees that the CPTPP breaches the Crown’s obligations to Māori under Te Tiriti o Waitangi and failed to protect Māori rights and interests in data and the digital domain.
US will not join regional trade pact CPTPP, but pursue specific tie-ups with allies: Gina Raimondo
17-Nov-2021 The Straits Times
The United States will not join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership now for various reasons, but it is pursuing other partnerships with its allies in specific areas.
‘Clear risk’ UK joining Pacific trade deal will raise drug prices for NHS
17-Nov-2021 The Independent
There is evidence of a potential conflict between the CPTPP and the UK’s current system of market authorisation of generic and biosimilar drugs.
Why is Taiwan using APEC to lobby to join the CPTPP trade pact?
15-Nov-2021 Aljazeera
When Taiwan aimed to join the first incarnation of the CPTPP, the US-led Trans Pacific Partnership, it garnered little support due to concerns about China.
Xi Jinping, speaking at APEC, pledges market reforms in bid to join Asia-Pacific trade bloc
12-Nov-2021 South China Morning Post
President Xi Jinping on Thursday pledged a raft of economic reforms as part of China’s efforts to join a Pacific Rim trade pact abandoned four years ago by the US and warned against efforts to “draw ideological lines” in the Asia-Pacific region.
China’s bid to join CPTPP: Neither serious nor sincere
10-Nov-2021 The Japan Times
Joining the pact is a smart move for Beijing, but will it abide by the rules?