Canada Latest Invitee to Join TPP
Parties to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement invited Canada to join the TPP negotiations, pending successful conclusion of domestic procedures, they said at the G20 meeting. Canada, like Mexico (see ITT's Online Archives [Ref.12061837]) had previously indicated strong interest in…
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joining TPP ([Ref.12040419]). In addition to the U.S., current TPP countries are Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. Next steps will parallel those for Mexico. The Administration will shortly notify Congress of our intent to include Canada in the TPP negotiations. The notification will trigger a 90-day consultation period with Congress on U.S. negotiating objectives with respect to Canada. Comments will be sought via a Federal Register notice. The TPP countries have completed 12 rounds of negotiations and the nine countries have made what U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk called solid progress. The next round of negotiations is scheduled for July 2-10 in San Diego.