CPTPP

Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership

Wild card entries complicate the trade game
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has issued a presidential decree announcing he has appointed a delegation to negotiate Ukraine’s membership of CPTPP.
Trade rep Kachka: Ukraine plans to start talks on joining Trans-Pacific Partnership in 2023
The Government of Ukraine will soon make a decision on Ukraine's application to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, Deputy Economy Minister, Trade Representative of Ukraine said.
Corporations dominate trade advisory panels
Trade advisers get special access to agreements and can comment on them before they are made public. More than 4 out of 5 advisers represent corporations.
International “digital trade” agreements: the next frontier
International trade agreements, typically negotiated in secret and without public deliberation, could prematurely deter or undercut ongoing efforts to regulate the tech industry.
International preemption by “trade” agreement: Big Tech’s ploy to undermine privacy, AI accountability, and anti-monopoly policies
The bottom-line is that the USMCA and related TPP digital rules that represent the agenda promoted by Big Tech interests must not become the model or starting text for future agreements.
Free trade deal is a major threat to UK public health, warn experts
The UK's decision to join one of the world's largest free trade agreements, known as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement on Trans-Pacific Partnership, poses a major threat to UK public health, warn experts.
Rough trade
UK accession to Pacific trade deal empowers fossil fuel firms to sue governments.
UK membership in Pacific trade deal threatens Canadian climate action
Canada should join Australia and New Zealand in neutralizing lopsided corporate protections in CPTPP.
Pacific trade deal ‘will make mockery of UK’s climate ambitions’
CPTPP membership will result in more deforestation and endanger animal welfare, say campaigners.
This CPTPP trade deal will hurt the climate, and for what?
Britain is waving through an agreement with minimal benefit and greater risks, from palm oil to emissions.