The Trans-Pacific Partnership: A Quest for a Twenty-First Century Trade Agreement

ISBN-13: 9781107028661 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 356 str.

C. L. Lim; Deborah Kay Elms; Patrick Low

Opis

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, labor 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.

Spis treści

Part I. Introduction: 1. What is 'high quality, twenty-first century' anyway?; Part II. The Past: Origins of the Agreement: 2. An overview and snapshot of the TPP negotiations; 3. US PTAs: what's been done and what it means for the TPP negotiations; 4. From the P4 to the TPP: transplantation or transformation?; 5. Incorporating development among diverse members; Part III. The Present: Twenty-First Century Elements and Obstacles: 6. Negotiations over market access in goods; 7. Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations: rules of origin; 8. Trade in services; 9. Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement towards Innovations in Investment Rule-Making; 10. The intellectual property chapter in the Trans-Pacific Partnership; 11. Regulatory coherence in the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks; 12. Environmental issues in the Trans-Pacific Partnership; 13. Labour standards and the TPP; 14. What is to be done with export restrictions?; Part IV. The Future: High-Quality Meets Regional and Global Realities: 15. Achieving a Free Trade Agreement of the Asia-Pacific: does the TPP present the most attractive path?: 16. APEC and TPP: are they mutually reinforcing?; 17. Coping with multiple uncertainties: Latin America in the TPP negotiations; 18. The TPP: multilateralizing regionalism or the securization of trade policy?; 19. The TPP in a multilateral world; Part V. The TPP Negotiations: The Quest for Quality: 20. Conclusions.