Full Name (abbr.): Trans-Pacific Partnership
URL: http://www.ustr.gov/tpp
Owners: The governments of these 9 countries: Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Social actors and #SDG17, Singapore, Vietnam, and the United States
Target Groups: Traders, investors and workers of the participating countries: the agreement will enhance trade and investment among the TPP partner countries, promote innovation, economic growth and development, and support the creation and retention of jobs.
Baseline: Trade and investment insufficiently liberalized; traditional trade issues and 21st century challenges not addressed; low living standards; loss of jobs.
Blueprint: A comprehensive, next-generation regional agreement that liberalizes trade and investment and addresses new and traditional trade issues and 21st-century challenges. We are confident that this agreement will be a model for ambition for other free trade agreements in the future, forging close linkages among our economies, enhancing our competitiveness, benefitting our consumers and supporting the creation and retention of jobs, higher living standards, and the reduction of poverty in our countries.
Actions and Resources:
See the information at the USTR website.
TPP Copyright Extension Would Keep Some of Canada's Top Authors Out of Public Domain For Decades Michael Geist, January 09, 2012
On the impact the copyright extension has had on the U.S. Public Domain, read: Public Domain Day: January 1, 2012 — The (Life Plus) Seventy Year Itch . . . (at Duke Law, Center for the Study of the Public Domain)
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