Trans-pacific Partnership
UK signs Trans-Pacific trade bloc, to get market access of 500 mn people
The UK on Sunday formally signed the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) trade bloc, a move it says will help grow the country's economy and provide access for British businesses to a market of over 500 million people. UK Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch, who is also leading the ongoing free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations with India, signed the pact agreed earlier this year during a visit to Auckland and hailed it as a major post-Brexit win for the country. The UK will now seek to ratify the agreement, which will include parliamentary scrutiny as the CPTPP member countries complete their legislative processes to admit Britain into the trading bloc of which India is not a member. I'm delighted to be here in New Zealand to sign a deal that will be a big boost for British businesses and deliver billions of pounds in additional trade, as well as open up huge opportunities and unparalleled access to a market of over 500 million ...
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Britain set to formally apply for trans-Pacific trade bloc membership
Britain will next week formally apply to join a trans-Pacific trading bloc of 11 countries, with negotiations set to start later this year, the government has said.
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Trump does a u-turn at Davos, says may be 'open' to TPP trade deal
Last January, Trump announced to officially withdraw the US from the Pacific trade deal in a largely symbolic move
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TPP nations consider changes to stalled trade deal: Sources
Vietnam raised changes to labour rights, intellectual property provisions
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Pacific trade pact on revival mode
Japan and others to discuss agreement this weekend, bypassing the US & China
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US' withdrawal from Trans-Pacific Partnership puts other partners in a fix
This move of Donald Trump is a big blow to this mega trade deal
Treaties with China, India should supplement America's TPP trade pact: former US diplomat
It is in Asia, where the US faces its toughest choices regarding its response to China's growing activism, the Bush-era official said
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Japan PM says TPP meaningless without US
Trump released a video laying out actions he would take on his first day in office on Jan. 20, including withdrawing the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership
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China's influence grows in ashes of Trans-Pacific trade pact
Australia said that it wanted to push ahead with a Chinese-led trade pact that would cover Asian nations from Japan to India but exclude the US
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China pledges further opening as leaders scramble for free trade
The annual APEC summit got under way in Lima just over a week after Trump's surprise victory dashed hopes of the largest-ever US-proposed trade deal
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Japan, Peru pledge to step up effort for early Trans-Pacific Partnership approval
The election of Donald Trump, a fierce critic of the TPP, as the US President has cast doubt on the future of the deal
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