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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452954603321

Titolo

The Trans-Pacific Partnership : a quest for a twenty-first century trade agreement / / edited by C.L. Lim, Deborah Kay Elms, Patrick Low [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-139-56488-9

1-316-09026-4

1-139-55631-2

1-139-55010-1

1-139-55261-9

1-139-55506-5

1-139-23677-6

1-283-63752-9

1-139-55135-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 337 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

382/.911823

Soggetti

Foreign trade regulation - Pacific Area

Tariff - Law and legislation - Pacific Area

Free trade - Pacific Area

Pacific Area Commercial treaties

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

What is "high quality 21st century" anyway? / C.L. Lim, Deborah Elms, and Patrick Low -- An overview and snapshot of the TPP negotiations / Deborah Elms and C.L. Lim -- US PTAS : what's been done and what it means for the TPP negotiations / Jeffrey J. Schott and Julia Muir -- From the P4 to the TPP : transplantation or transformation? / Henry Gao -- Incorporating development among diverse members / Joel Trachtman -- Negotiations over market access in goods / Deborah Elms -- Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations : rules of origin / Margaret Liang -- Trade in services / Stuart Harbinson and Aik Hoe Lim -- TPP Agreement : towards innovations in investment rule-making / Julien



Chaisse -- The intellectual property chapter in the TPP / Susy Frankel -- Regulatory coherence in the TPP talks / Thomas J. Bollyky -- Environmental issues in the TPP / Jeffrey J. Schott and Julia Muir -- Labour standards and the TPP / Kimberly Ann Elliott -- What is to be done with export restrictions? / C.L. Lim -- Achieving a free trade area of the Asia-Pacific : does the TPP present the most attractive path? / Meredith Kolsky Lewis -- APEC and TPP : are they mutually reinforcing? / Carlos Kuriyama -- Coping with multiple uncertainties : Latin America in the TPP negotiations / Sebastian Herreros -- The TPP : multilateralizing regionalism or the securization of trade policy? / Ann Capling and John Ravenhill -- The TPP in a multilateral world / Patrick Low.

Sommario/riassunto

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks attempt to link together at least nine countries in three continents to create a 'high-quality, twenty-first century agreement'. Such an agreement is intended to open markets to competition between the partners more than ever before in sectors ranging from goods and services to investment, and includes rigorous rules in the fields of intellectual property, labour protection and environmental conservation. The TPP also aims to improve regulatory coherence, enhance production supply chains and help boost small and medium-sized enterprises. It could transform relations with regions such as Latin America, paving the way to an eventual Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific, or see innovations translated into the global trade regulatory system operating under the WTO. However, given the tensions between strategic and economic concerns, the final deal could still collapse into something closer to a standard, 'twentieth-century' trade agreement.