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What changes lie ahead with TPP pact?
News, Published on 07/10/2015
» By lowering trade barriers among the United States and 11 nations scattered around the Pacific Rim from Japan to Chile, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) pact is intended to help countries specialise in producing and exporting whatever goods and services they can make most efficiently, while importing the rest. In the long run, that could help decrease some of the prices consumers see in stores.
Asian states hail deal on world's largest free trade area
AFP, Published on 06/10/2015
» TOKYO - Asian members of the newly-minted Trans-Pacific Partnership Tuesday hailed the deal to create the world's largest free trade area, with Japan calling it the start of a "new century" for the region.
12 Pacific nations agree to historic TPP trade accord
AFP, Published on 06/10/2015
» ATLANTA - Twelve Pacific rim countries sealed the deal late Monday (Thailand time) to create the world's largest free trade area, with implications for Thailand and for world trade in the 21st century.
US-led TPP trade agreement & Thai auto industry
Jon Fernquest, Published on 05/10/2015
» Last-minute compromise gives US automakers 20 more years of tariff protection against low-cost pickup truck imports from Thailand & Asia. Trade deal reached 'in principle'.
TPP deal reached 'in principle'
Reuters, Published on 05/10/2015
» ATLANTA - A dozen Pacific nations were close to a deal on a sweeping free trade pact early Monday (Thailand time) after a reported breakthrough over how long a monopoly pharmaceutical companies should be given on new biotech drugs.
Pacific trade negotiators push hard for deal
AFP, Published on 04/10/2015
» ATLANTA - Officials from 12 countries including the US, Japan and Australia appeared close to a deal on an ambitious Pacific Rim trade pact Saturday as negotiations went into the second day of overtime.
Pacific trade negotiators push hard for deal
AFP, Published on 03/10/2015
» ATLANTA - A deal on an ambitious Pacific Rim free-trade area appeared within reach as negotiators kept pushing to resolve the remaining issues over drug patents and auto and dairy trade.
Pacific trade negotiators push hard for deal
AFP, Published on 03/10/2015
» ATLANTA, GEORGIA — A deal on an ambitious Pacific Rim free-trade area appeared within reach late Friday as negotiators kept pushing to resolve the remaining issues over drug patents and auto and dairy trade.
TPP trade talks appeal, says Somkid
News, Post Reporters, Published on 14/09/2015
» Thailand is interested in joining the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact being touted by the United States, but needs to study the terms and conditions of the new trade bloc first, Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak says.
Prayut coy on plans to join TPP
News, Published on 08/08/2015
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Friday poured cold water on a call by an American business lobby group urging Thailand to join the controversial Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact.