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The Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership Analysis and Commentary
Jorge A. Huerta-Goldman TILPA, Geneva
David A. Gantz
University of Arizona
Description The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership among eleven key nations of the Pacific Rim has already expanded trade and economic cooperation among the Parties. It also serves to encourage political cooperation among them and has served as a model for future ‘wide and deep’ free trade agreements. The chapters of this book will provide readers with a detailed understanding of the CPTPP’s coverage, including provisions relating to tariff elimination, customs rules of origin, agriculture, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, technical barriers to trade, telecommunications, intellectual property, investment and investor–state arbitration, financial and other services, government procurement, state-owned enterprises, electronic commerce and digital trade, small and medium-sized enterprises, competition law, labor and environmental protection, dispute settlement, and many others. No international lawyer, economist, trade negotiator, or enterprise can afford not to take advantage of the opportunities for business that the CPTPP offers. This book has been written by CPTPP negotiators, experts, and practitioners.
Key Features • Provides comprehensive information on the CPTPP/TPP from experts in the field and government officials who negotiated the agreement • Offers clear and concise analysis of complex subject matter • Includes perspectives from experts in law, economics, international trade, and public policy for interdisciplinary coverage of the CPTPP/TPP
Contents 1. Introduction: the Trans-Pacific Partnership becomes the comprehensive and progressive agreement for TPP; 2. TPP, US Congress and the Trade Promotion Authority; 3. The TPP, a horizontal overview; 4. Market access for trade in goods negotiations in the TPP; 5. Trade provisions as legos? How Chapter 2 of the TPP was influenced by WTO negotiations and prior US trade deals; 6. TPP, agricultural trade and food security; 7. Rules of origin and origin procedures; 8. Trade in textiles and apparel goods; 9. How far beyond the TFA? Trade facilitation in the WTO and the TPP; 10. Treatment of trade remedies under the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Chapter 6; 11. SPS chapter under the TPP agreement and its implications; 12. Technical barriers to trade; 13. Addressing the right to regulate in the CPTPP investment chapter: identifying new treaty practice; 14. Protecting Investment under NAFTA the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the comprehensive and progressive TPP; 15. The Trans-Pacific Partnership as a development of the Australia−United States free trade agreement: services liberalization and investment protection; 16. Services overview: background, strategy and solutions;
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17. Cross-border trade in services (Chapter 10) and temporary entry for business persons (Chapter 12); 18. Financial services; 19. Telecommunications chapter in the TPP; 20. Understanding the TPP agreement e-commerce chapter; 21. Government procurement in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: a global beachhead for market access and good governance; 22. TPP’s competition policy chapter: towards convergence; 23. Rules for stateowned enterprises in Chapter 17 of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: balancing market-oriented discipline and policy flexibility for states; 24. Non-commercial assistance rules in the TPP: a comparative analysis with the SCM Agreement; 25. IP in the TPP: how far beyond the existing FTAs does it go?; 26. Strengthening labor rights in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: a lost opportunity?; 27. TPP trade and environment chapter; 28. Horizontal regulatory coherence aspects of the TPP; 29. Transparency and anti-corruption; 30. State-to-state dispute settlement under TPP Chapter 28 and NAFTA Chapter 20; 3 1. Initial provisions, administrative provisions, exceptions and final provisions (TPP Chapters 1, 27, 29 and 30).
