Download or read book The Trans Pacific Partnership and Canada written by Scott Sinclair and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trans-Pacific Partnership, with its twelve participating countries on three continents, is the largest regional trade and investment agreement that Canada has ever negotiated. It is also one of the most controversial— for good reason. Negotiations ended exactly a year ago, in October 2015, and the TPP was signed in New Zealand in February 2016. But there is no guarantee it will ever come into effect. Opposition to the TPP is strongest in the United States, where both 2016 presidential nominees vowed to kill or significantly renegotiate the deal. Outgoing President Barack Obama characterized the TPP as a Made-in-America deal in the hope of getting it passed into law shortly after the November presidential election. But is what is good for corporate America good for Canada? In this book, experts in a dozen policy areas explain what the impact of the TPP agreement would be on Canada. Many of the key issues they explore have received little media coverage, notably the effect of the TPP on environmental protection, health care and other public services, Canada's cultural industries, the labour market, human rights and the democratic decision-making process generally. Perhaps most controversially, the TPP would expand the rights of multinational corporations to sue governments for policies and decisions that interfere with their profits. Most public commentary on the TPP in Canada has come from CEOs and business lobbyists with a vested interest in furthering a free-trade model that impoverishes democracy and weakens our ability to shape public-interest regulation. The expert contributors to this book, drawn from academia, the labour movement and NGO world, offer an independent and nuanced account of the real but underreported costs of the TPP.
Download or read book The Trans Pacific Partnership written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Canada and the Trans Pacific Partnership written by Michael Kennedy and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - Political systems in general and in comparison, grade: A+, Webster University, language: English, abstract: The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), formerly titled the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership, is a free trade agreement currently being negotiated that could represent the world’s largest multilateral free trade bloc in terms of gross domestic product (GDP). This agreement, if successfully ratified, would establish stronger economic ties between various Pacific Rim countries. Originally signed by Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, and Singapore in 2005, the list of members participating in the TPP negotiations has since grown in size to include Australia, Peru, the United States, and Vietnam in 2008, Malaysia in 2010, and Canada and Mexico in 2012. From 2010, Canada had been an observer of the negotiations but could not participate as it had been blocked by New Zealand and the United States from joining the talks. This was due to its domestic agricultural policies and intellectual property rights standards. In addition to the current negotiating parties, Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan, and South Korea have also expressed interest in joining the discussions. [...]
Download or read book Canada and the Trans Pacific Partnership written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the prospect of China joining the negotiations in the short term is uncertain, the coun- try's expression of interest underscores why the TPP is important: it has the potential to expand to include all Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation coun- tries (APEC). [...] For countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the main draw of the TPP is preferential access to the United States. [...] Although the outcome of the CETA negotiations is uncertain, if an agreement is reached, it is expected to further liberalize goods and services market access for European compan- ies doing business in Canada and provide Canadian businesses with expanded EU commitments in the areas of automobiles, beef, government procure- ment, and investment-well beyond the benchmark commitments of the WTO agreem [...] For Canadian companies, this means that the investments they make in member countries will be subject to the stronger level of pro- tection agreed upon in the TPP, and that the suppliers and buyers they trade with will adhere to a clear and strong set of rules in the manufacturing and processing of products. [...] Since the United States is the dominant TPP player, China may prefer to negotiate through the fraserinstitute.org Canada and the Trans-Pacific Partnership / 13 Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership1 negotiations, which include the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), plus the six countries with which ASEAN has existing free trade agreements.
Download or read book Understanding the Trans Pacific Partnership written by Jeffrey J. Schott and published by Peterson Institute. This book was released on 2013 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a big deal in the making. With the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations at an impasse, the TPP negotiations have taken center stage as the most significant trade initiative of the 21st century. As of December 2012, negotiators have made extensive progress in 15 negotiating rounds since the talks began in March 2010, though hard work remains to finish the deal in the coming year or so. Despite this effort, however, the TPP is not well understood. In part, the reason lies in the dynamism of the TPP initiative. Unlike other free trade pacts, the growing membership as the talks have proceeded and the broad range, complexity, and novelty of the issues on the agenda have made it difficult to track the substantive detail and progress of the talks. This Policy Analysis aims to remedy this problem by providing a reader's guide to the TPP initiative. It first assesses how much the TPP countries are alike and like-minded in their pursuit of a comprehensive trade deal. It then examines the current status of the talks, the major substantive sticking points, and the implications of Canada and Mexico joining the talks as well as prospective membership of other countries. The Policy Analysis then looks ahead to how the TPP could advance economic integration in the Asia-Pacific region and the implications for trade relations with China.
Download or read book Trans Pacific Partnership An Assessment written by Cathleen Cimino-Isaacs and published by Peterson Institute for International Economics. This book was released on 2016-07-20 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) between 12 Pacific Rim countries has generated the most intensive political debate about the role of trade in the United States in a generation. The TPP is one of the broadest and most progressive free trade agreements since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The essays in this Policy Analysis provide estimates of the TPP's benefits and costs and analyze more than 20 issues in the agreement, including environmental and labor standards, tariff schedules, investment and competition policy, intellectual property, ecommerce, services and financial services, government procurement, dispute settlement, and agriculture. Through extensive analysis of the TPP text, PIIE scholars present an indispensable and detailed "reader's guide" that also sheds light on the agreement's merits and shortcomings. In Rich People Poor Countries, Caroline Freund identifies and analyzes nearly 700 emerging-market billionaires whose net worth adds up to more than $2 trillion. Freund finds that these titans of industry are propelling poor countries out of their small-scale production and agricultural past and into a future of multinational industry and service-based mega firms. And more often than not, the new billionaires are using their newfound acumen to navigate the globalized economy, without necessarily relying on political connections, inheritance, or privileged access to resources. This story of emerging-market billionaires and the global businesses they create dramatically illuminates the process of industrialization in the modern world economy.
Download or read book The Comprehensive and Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership written by Jorge A. Huerta-Goldman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides comprehensive chapter-by-chapter assessment of one of the world's most important regional trade agreements, the TPP/CPTPP.
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Download or read book Better in Than Out written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the elements of the TPP that can be measured with reasonable precision, implementation of the TPP would boost Canadian household income by C$485 million in 2018, measured in 2016 dollars, rising to about C$3 billion in 2035, when the full impacts of the TPP have been realized. [...] Quantitative assessments conducted prior to and since the release of the text of the agreement ranged from significant trade and GDP gains to losses for many of the parties, stoking controversies concerning the methodologies. [...] The main caveats suggest the risks are more on the downside in terms of the scale of gains; the reported figures should, therefore, be treated as an upper bound to the likely impacts.2 This E-Brief focuses on the numbers. [...] The reported gains in 2035 may be interpreted as the permanent change in the level of economic output, once full equilibrium has been restored following the policy shocks, including the reallocation of capital and labour across sectors in response to the changed opportunities in the liberalized economy. [...] The intra-TPP export increase is on the order of US$40 billion, the real GDP gain is about 0.074 percent, and the welfare gain for the entire region falls short of US$30 billion.
Download or read book Canada Trans Pacific Partnership Countries written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since then, the following countries have joined the TPP negotiations: Australia, Peru, the United States and Vietnam in 2008; Malaysia in 2010; Canada and Mexico in 2012; and Japan in 2013. [...] GDP per capita at PPP was calculated by dividing the estimated GDP at PPP for the TPP countries collectively by the estimated population of the TPP countries collectively. [...] The estimated population for the TPP countries collectively was calculated by summing the population for the 12 TPP countries. [...] Balance of trade: The trade balance is the difference between the value of exports and the value of imports. [...] Customs-based data: Customs-based data are compiled from declarations filed with the Canada Border Services Agency and are used to track the flow of goods into and out of Canada, with one exception: exports to the United States.
Download or read book Canada and the Trans Pacific Partnership written by Laura Ritchie Dawson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canada and the Trans Pacific Partnership written by Dan Ciuriak and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The entry into force of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership will mark the end of a long and winding road for Canada in committing to an Asia Pacific trade strategy, marked by a number of significant shifts in the calculus of costs and benefits. This note recaps the history of Canada's engagement and summarizes the quantitative costs and benefits that it faced in choosing to join or stay out.
Download or read book Can Canada Join the Trans pacific Partnership written by Laura Dawson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At home, statement from President Obama and the other this should involve re-evaluating the merits of TPP leaders at the summit is a commitment to continuing with the current constraints of supply- "continue talks with other trans-Pacific partners managed agriculture against the cost of weakened that have expressed interest in joining the TPP opportunities for East Asian economic engagement. [...] By contrast, participation in the TPP would (WTO) and US identification of the TPP as its provide enhanced and more secure access to a series flagship trade policy in Asia have accelerated the of markets recognized as gaining importance in pace and profile of the Trans-Pacific Partnership terms of global trade and investment linkages. [...] The US and Accession and the TPP New Zealand negotiators have made it clear that the TPP negotiating parties are not interested The original P4 Agreement encourages accession in adding new countries if it means lowering the but the rules for joining are not clearly defined.10 standard of the agreement (IUTR October 28, In the absence of more detailed guidance, the ad 2010). [...] The TPP framework creates strong incentives for The P4 is similarly brief on how to modify or states to get in early to influence the shape of the expand the agreement.11 The text does not exclude final agreement and to take advantage of the early the possibility that new members could enter under market expansion gains that accompany new trade differential terms or to carve out sensitive sectors, [...] It is reasonable to assume that in the withdrawal of the BHP bid.17 New Zealand would prefer to try to break down It is important to note that the sectors reviewed US resistance to dairy liberalization without by USTR were not of equal importance to the Canada standing alongside to support domestic United States.
Download or read book Understanding the Free Trade Agreement written by Chibueze Unobagha and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After seven years of negotiation, the United States on October 5, 2015 reached a conclusion of the Trans - pacific partnership agreement with the eleven other TPP countries which are Australia, Japan, Chile, Malaysia, Brunei, Peru, New Zealand, Vietnam, Singapore, Canada and Mexico. According to the office of the United State trade representative website, the TPP is meant to level the playing field for American workers and American businesses through eliminating more than 18,000 taxes and other trade barriers on American products across the eleven other countries in the TPP barrier that put American products at an unfair disadvantage today. TPP will make it easier for American entrepreneurs, farmers and small business owners to export made in America products. Considering the large volume of the full text of TPP which contains about 4500 pages, this book carefully summarizes the trans-pacific partnership agreement pointing out the new features as it will affect the growth and development of the United States.
Download or read book Better In Than Out Canada and the Trans Pacific Partnership written by Dan Ciuriak and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) promises to have a modest impact on Canada, according to ground breaking research from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Better in than Out? Canada and the Trans-Pacific Partnership,” authors Dan Ciuriak, Ali Dadkhah, and Jingliang Xiao, find that some sectors will benefit from the TPP, while for others, the TPP will not go far enough. However, Canada would forgo any gains, and experience additional modest losses from not ratifying the TPP.
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