The Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership
Analysis and Commentary

This volume provides comprehensive chapter-by-chapter assessment of one of the world's most important regional trade agreements, the TPP/CPTPP.

Jorge A. Huerta-Goldman (Edited by), David A. Gantz (Edited by)

9781107163256, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 2 December 2021

724 pages
23.3 x 15.5 x 4.2 cm, 1.14 kg

'From TPP to CPTPP nothing much changed other than the disappearance of the United States from the list of signatories. This model FTA includes provisions on the most avant-garde issues in international trade, and will surely provide a model for future FTAs. In this volume, the editors managed to bring together an amazing wealth of talent, and assigned them the task to explain the salient features of the CPTPP. The result is the most comprehensive discussion on what is proving to be a mainstay in international trade relations.' Petros C. Mavroidis, CLS, New York City

The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership among eleven key nations of the Pacific Rim has already expanded trade and economic cooperation among the Parties. It also serves to encourage political cooperation among them and has served as a model for future 'wide and deep' free trade agreements. The chapters of this book will provide readers with a detailed understanding of the CPTPP's coverage, including provisions relating to tariff elimination, customs rules of origin, agriculture, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, technical barriers to trade, telecommunications, intellectual property, investment and investor–state arbitration, financial and other services, government procurement, state-owned enterprises, electronic commerce and digital trade, small and medium-sized enterprises, competition law, labor and environmental protection, dispute settlement, and many others. No international lawyer, economist, trade negotiator, or enterprise can afford not to take advantage of the opportunities for business that the CPTPP offers. This book has been written by CPTPP negotiators, experts, and practitioners.

1. Introduction: the Trans-Pacific Partnership becomes the comprehensive and progressive agreement for TPP David A. Gantz and Jorge Huerta-Goldman
2. TPP, US Congress and the Trade Promotion Authority Sheridan S. McKinney and John Gilliland
3. The TPP, a horizontal overview Roberto Zapata Barradas
4. Market access for trade in goods negotiations in the TPP César Guerrero and Félix González Sáenz
5. Trade provisions as legos? How Chapter 2 of the TPP was influenced by WTO negotiations and prior US trade deals Roy Santana
6. TPP, agricultural trade and food security Ekaterina Krivonos, Daneswar Poonyth and Mischa Tripoli
7. Rules of origin and origin procedures Luis Ricardo Rodriguez Meneses
8. Trade in textiles and apparel goods Rupa Ganguli and Jorge A. Huerta Goldman
9. How far beyond the TFA? Trade facilitation in the WTO and the TPP Carlos Gabriel Enriquez Montes
10. Treatment of trade remedies under the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Chapter 6 David A. Gantz
11. SPS chapter under the TPP agreement and its implications Yuka Fukunaga
12. Technical barriers to trade Jorge A. Huerta Goldman
13. Addressing the right to regulate in the CPTPP investment chapter: identifying new treaty practice Rodrigo Monardes, Ana Novik and Carlos Portales
14. Protecting Investment under NAFTA the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the comprehensive and progressive TPP David A. Gantz
15. The Trans-Pacific Partnership as a development of the Australia?United States free trade agreement: services liberalization and investment protection Tania Voon and Andrew D. Mitchell
16. Services overview: background, strategy and solutions Amb Peter Allgeier
17. Cross-border trade in services (Chapter 10) and temporary entry for business persons (Chapter 12) Guillermo Malpica Soto
18. Financial services Juan A. Marchetti
19. Telecommunications chapter in the TPP Gerardo Meza Grillo
20. Understanding the TPP agreement e-commerce chapter Ed Brzytwa, Stephen Ezell and Nigel Cory
21. Government procurement in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: a global beachhead for market access and good governance Robert D. Anderson, Philippe Pelletier and Christopher R. Yukins
22. TPP's competition policy chapter: towards convergence Juliana Nam
23. Rules for state-owned enterprises in Chapter 17 of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: balancing market-oriented discipline and policy flexibility for states Iain Sandford and Jan Yves Remy
24. Non-commercial assistance rules in the TPP: a comparative analysis with the SCM Agreement Yoshinori Abe and Takemasa Sekine
25. IP in the TPP: how far beyond the existing FTAs does it go? Maximiliano Santa Cruz Scantlebury and Denisse Pérez
26. Strengthening labor rights in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: a lost opportunity? Desirée LeClercq and Karen Curtis
27. TPP trade and environment chapter Christopher O'Toole
28. Horizontal regulatory coherence aspects of the TPP Phoenix X. F. Cai
29. Transparency and anti-corruption Jorge A. Huerta Goldman
30. State-to-state dispute settlement under TPP Chapter 28 and NAFTA Chapter 20 David A. Gantz
31. Initial provisions, administrative provisions, exceptions and final provisions (TPP Chapters 1, 27, 29 and 30) David A. Gantz.

Subject Areas: International economic & trade law [LBBM], International trade [KCLT]