Negotiations in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (“TPP”) are reaching the end-Game. After more than three years of hard bargaining, the twelve members are down to the most sensitive issues: some agricultural products, textiles, intellectual property, state-owned enterprises, and a dispute...

Much has been made of the “spaghetti or noodle bowl” problem of overlapping preferential trade agreements (PTAs). A new PTA, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), currently under negotiation between eleven states — Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru,...

Negotiations in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (“TPP”) are reaching the end-Game. After more than three years of hard bargaining, the twelve members are down to the most sensitive issues: some agricultural products, textiles, intellectual property, state-owned enterprises, and a dispute...