TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lim,C.L.
AU  - Elms,Deborah Kay
AU  - Low,Patrick
TI  - The Trans-Pacific Partnership: A Quest for a Twenty-first Century Trade Agreement 
SN  - 9781139236775 (ebook)
AV  - KVC947.A42005 T73 2012
U1  - 382/.911823 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139236775
ER  -