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Congress Sends Fast-Track Trade Authority Bill to the President, Invigorating...
After several weeks of legislative wrangling, congressional leaders will send a bill to President Obama this week to give him fast-track authority to negotiate a trade deal that will potentially govern...
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Trade Legislation Sent to Obama
On June 24, the Senate approved the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015, granting President Obama trade promotion authority, or TPA. The passage of this...
View ArticlePresident Obama Signs into Law Trade Promotion Authority, Including...
Today, June 29, 2015, President Obama signed into law trade promotion authority (TPA), giving his administration the ability to negotiate international trade agreements subject to approval by Congress...
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Will China’s Currency Devaluation Complicate the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
As trade ministers from 12 Pacific Rim countries continue to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal, participants in the auto industry on both sides of the Pacific are watching talks...
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Canada is a Party to the Historic Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
On October 5, 2015, the trade ministers of Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam and the United States signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership...
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The Trade Remedies Chapter of TPP Will Bring Opportunities for Trade Lawyers
Trade lawyers may have new tools in their tool belt as a result of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). So often when one reads about a free trade agreement, a Chapter will jump out as...
View ArticleNext Steps for TPP Deal
Yesterday, the twelve countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) announced that they have reached an agreement. While this represents a significant milestone after more than...
View ArticleAtlanta – We Have a Deal On the TPP
After 5 years of negotiations and a last minute “go around” at the recent Maui meetings, the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) equivalent of Papal white smoke has appeared in Atlanta with an announcement that...
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Pacific Rim Countries Reach Historic Agreement On the Trans-Pacific...
Trade ministers from 12 Pacific Rim countries announced, on October 5, 2015, that they had reached an agreement in principle on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The TPP would arguably be the...
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Secret Trade Agreement Includes Agreement On Trade Secrets
A great amount of attention has been focused in recent days on the just concluded Trans Pacific Partnership (“TPP”) negotiations, and it should not escape notice that the TPP promises to enhance trade...
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership Calls for Eliminating Tariffs On...
If approved by Congress, the hotly debated Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement between the United States, Canada, Japan, and nine other Pacific Rim countries, would be the among the largest...
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The Calm Before the TPP Storm
Over the past year, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (“TPP”) has been the subject of intense debate and considerable international press. Understandably so as TPP represents intense efforts by...
View ArticleTrans-Pacific Partnership Faces Difficult Legislative Terrain
On October 4, 2015, trade ministers from 12 Pacific Rim countries announced the conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP). TPP, a foreign policy legacy item for the president,...
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TPP: An Embrace, Distance or Disaster Decision? and What About China?
Although China did not participate in or sign on to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (“TPP”), the agreement is an issue many of our China clients are monitoring. The countries that signed the...
View ArticleTrans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement May Authorize Cross-Border Data Flows
The text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (“TPP”) agreement was released to the public for the first time today. The TPP has yet to be ratified by the twelve Pacific Rim nations that negotiated the...
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Open Secret—Trans Pacific Partnership Terms Revealed but Trade Secret...
This morning the Obama administration publicly released the previously-undisclosed text of the Trans Pacific Partnership, or TPP, revealing, among other things, the provisions related to trade secrets...
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Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) Text Released
Today, New Zealand released the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement on the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade web-site. The TPP text was also released on a Trans-Pacific...
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White House Announces Long-Awaited Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
The Obama administration released the full text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, on November 5, kicking off a 90-day window for congressional review. The TPP would arguably be the...
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TPP: We Write the Rules, Not China
The text of the concluded TPP was released yesterday. The U.S. Trade Representative (“USTR”) published a chapter-by-chapter version. A more reader-friendly version, with links to chapters in .pdf...
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Trans-Pacific Partnership Would Promote Cross-Border Data Transfers and...
As U.S. and European regulators and businesses work toward solutions in the wake of last month’s decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union that invalidated the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor...
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