trans-pacific partnership (tpp)

[eatshitndie]

china is conspicuously absent. no surprise.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a proposed regional regulatory and investment treaty. As of 2014, twelve countries throughout the Asia-Pacific region have participated in negotiations on the TPP: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam.

The proposed agreement began in 2005 as the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPSEP or P4). Participating countries set the goal of wrapping up negotiations in 2012, but contentious issues such as agriculture, intellectual property, and services and investments have caused negotiations to continue into the present,[7] with the last round meeting in Ottawa from 3–12 July 2014.[8][9] Implementation of the TPP is one of the primary goals of the trade agenda of the Obama administration in the United States of America.

 

[laksaboy]

Last year, Lee Hsien Loong was the one who travelled to Washington DC (or some other summit meeting) to make the sales pitch for the TPP. Japan and Singapore were very eager to join. Other countries, less so. Especially those bigger countries with agriculture.

 

[winnipegjets]

Free trade is going out of style as people in the developed countries see how globalization is destroying their livelihood. Managed trade will be the new model.

 

[eatshitndie]

Last year, Lee Hsien Loong was the one who travelled to Washington DC (or some other summit meeting) to make the sales pitch for the TPP. Japan and Singapore were very eager to join. Other countries, less so. Especially those bigger countries with agriculture.

it's an obama pet project. every potus, when elected into oval orifice, wants to prove something new that heshe can call hisher own. apec is already around, but this one is pitched as a more exclusive and upperty club, for both political and economic reasons, but mostly geopolitical. when the next prez cums into power, a new one will be proposed, and porlumpar cuntries in the pacific rim can't wait to get reamed in another new pact.

 

[eatshitndie]

Free trade is going out of style as people in the developed countries see how globalization is destroying their livelihood. Managed trade will be the new model.

when it cums to smuggling, oops....carrying, gold, sg is the best and most-free transit hub. changi may sink due to the transit weight in gold. from dictators to dick and harry with their ill-gotten gold hoard, everyone welcum! :p