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Informationen zum Autor C. L. Lim is an international lawyer and former trade negotiator. He is currently Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong and chairs the East Asian International Economic Law and Policy Programme (EAIEL). He is also Visiting Professor at King's College London and a barrister. Deborah Kay Elms is Head of the Temasek Foundation Centre for Trade and Negotiations (TFCTN) and Senior Fellow of International Political Economy at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Patrick Low is the Chief Economist at the World Trade Organization. He is also an Adjunct Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, and a Senior Fellow of the Fung Global Institute, Hong Kong. Klappentext An examination of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) - a trade agreement that aspires to set the benchmarks for future deals. Zusammenfassung The Trans-Pacific Partnership talks seek to link at least nine countries in three continents to create a 'high-quality! twenty-first century agreement' intended to open markets to competition between the partners more than ever before. This book-length study assesses the likelihood of a successful outcome. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Introduction: 1. What is 'high quality, twenty-first century' anyway?; Part II. The Past: Origins of the Agreement: 2. An overview and snapshot of the TPP negotiations; 3. US PTAs: what's been done and what it means for the TPP negotiations; 4. From the P4 to the TPP: transplantation or transformation?; 5. Incorporating development among diverse members; Part III. The Present: Twenty-First Century Elements and Obstacles: 6. Negotiations over market access in goods; 7. Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations: rules of origin; 8. Trade in services; 9. Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement towards Innovations in Investment Rule-Making; 10. The intellectual property chapter in the Trans-Pacific Partnership; 11. Regulatory coherence in the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks; 12. Environmental issues in the Trans-Pacific Partnership; 13. Labour standards and the TPP; 14. What is to be done with export restrictions?; Part IV. The Future: High-Quality Meets Regional and Global Realities: 15. Achieving a Free Trade Agreement of the Asia-Pacific: does the TPP present the most attractive path?: 16. APEC and TPP: are they mutually reinforcing?; 17. Coping with multiple uncertainties: Latin America in the TPP negotiations; 18. The TPP: multilateralizing regionalism or the securization of trade policy?; 19. The TPP in a multilateral world; Part V. The TPP Negotiations: The Quest for Quality: 20. Conclusions....
