02252nam a22003378a 4500 CR9781139236775 UkCbUP 20171019123617.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 120201s2012||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139236775 (ebook) 9781107028661 (hardback) 9781107612426 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda KVC947.A42005 T73 2012 382/.911823 23 The Trans-Pacific Partnership : A Quest for a Twenty-first Century Trade Agreement / Edited by C. L. Lim, Deborah Kay Elms, Patrick Low. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012. 1 online resource (356 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). The 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. Lim, C. L., editor of compilation. Elms, Deborah Kay, editor of compilation. Low, Patrick, editor of compilation. Print version: 9781107028661 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139236775 225963 225963