02221nam a22003258a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141020003000170040002400200050002900224082002000253245014300273264005200416300005900468336002600527337002600553338003600579500007300615520099600688700004001684700004701724700004201771776003501813856004701848CR9781139236775UkCbUP20171019123617.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||120201s2012||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9781139236775 (ebook)  z9781107028661 (hardback)  z9781107612426 (paperback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aKVC947.A42005 bT73 201200a382/.91182322304aThe Trans-Pacific Partnership :bA Quest for a Twenty-first Century Trade Agreement /cEdited by C. L. Lim, Deborah Kay Elms, Patrick Low. 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2012.  a1 online resource (356 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aThe Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks attempt to link together at least nine countries in three continents to create a 'high-quality, twenty-first century agreement'. Such an agreement is intended to open markets to competition between the partners more than ever before in sectors ranging from goods and services to investment, and includes rigorous rules in the fields of intellectual property, labour protection and environmental conservation. The TPP also aims to improve regulatory coherence, enhance production supply chains and help boost small and medium-sized enterprises. It could transform relations with regions such as Latin America, paving the way to an eventual Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific, or see innovations translated into the global trade regulatory system operating under the WTO. However, given the tensions between strategic and economic concerns, the final deal could still collapse into something closer to a standard, 'twentieth-century' trade agreement.1 aLim, C. L.,eeditor of compilation.1 aElms, Deborah Kay,eeditor of compilation.1 aLow, Patrick,eeditor of compilation.08iPrint version: z978110702866140uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139236775