Difficult Birth of TPP Deal Reveals Mixed Expectations
2015-10-06 09:48:09 source:Global Times
October 5, 2015
"Officials from the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries failed to seal a final agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal 'in principle' on Sunday as scheduled, shedding light on the divisions among the 12 parties.
Trade officials originally scheduled to wrap up talks on the agreement on Thursday, but have not yet worked out major differences in the areas of agricultural market access, rules of origin for autos and intellectual property protections for a new class of drugs known as biologics."
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