Peter G. Mayberry, Contributing Editor03.02.18
As widely noted, The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations – now currently known as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) or TPP 2.0 – is an international free trade agreement that’s currently being negotiated with the Pacific Rim nations of Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam.
While these negotiations are not uniquely impactful to the nonwovens industry per se, they are important to global economic issues overall and, as such, should be carefully studied – especially by U.S. manufacturers.
TPP negotiations began as an expansion of the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPSEP) that was signed by Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore in 2005. Beginning in 2008, Australia, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, the United States, and Vietnam joined the talks, which brought the total number of countries participating in the negotiations to 12 as of early 2017.
But the TPP was widely derided during the U.S. Presidential elections in 2016 with all three major
While these negotiations are not uniquely impactful to the nonwovens industry per se, they are important to global economic issues overall and, as such, should be carefully studied – especially by U.S. manufacturers.
TPP negotiations began as an expansion of the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPSEP) that was signed by Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore in 2005. Beginning in 2008, Australia, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, the United States, and Vietnam joined the talks, which brought the total number of countries participating in the negotiations to 12 as of early 2017.
But the TPP was widely derided during the U.S. Presidential elections in 2016 with all three major
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