The Trans-Pacific Partnership is one of President Obama’s biggest accomplishments of his second term. Can it survive the anti-trade tide in the race to replace him?
TPP still faces a long slog before it takes effect.
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Countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership signed the deal earlier this month, but changes can still be made to improve the mechanism that allows investors to sue states.
Reports of the demise of the WTO’s trade agenda might be premature.
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The multilateral system is under challenge from a surge of bilateral and regional trade deals.
The US-led TPP and Obama’s ‘Asia pivot’ will face certain challenges against Xi Jinping’s ambitions of a new order established through the Chinese-led AIIB.
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The US and China may have competing ambitions for the Asia-Pacific in the shape of the TPP and AIIB, but they may not be as incompatible as we have first believed.
China didn’t get a seat at the TPP table (even in Beijing).
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Some say the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership was designed specifically to exclude or even encircle China. So do its leaders mind being on the outs?
Japan agreed to lower tariffs on beef as a part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Japan’s decision to lower or eliminate tariffs on rice, pork and beef may end up giving the prime minister a headache as he tries to get the trade accord through Parliament.
Australian Trade Minister Andrew Robb has been busy signing deals this year.
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Disputes over intellectual property and car parts are emerging as last-minute hurdles as negotiators race to complete the Trans-Pacific Partnership ahead of elections.
Passage of trade promotion authority is still far from certain, but yesterday’s Senate vote may signal good news for the trade deals it’s meant to help.
President Obama wants to get on the fast track. Will Congress give it to him?
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Despite arguments that a controversial clause in the Transpacific Partnership will not affect sovereignty, governments would be foolish to agreeing to it.
Secrecy around investor state dispute settlement clauses in the Transpacific Partnership has stoked concerns.
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A green trade deal would encourage the development of renewable energy in big carbon emitters such as China.
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