Getting from here to there : stitching together goods agreements in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement

• Main Author: Elms, Deborah
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Working Paper
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic development
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/79837; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/9115
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks are a good test case for examining what happens when sweeping, grand rhetoric meets political and economic realities. In these ongoing negotiations, officals began the talks in late 2009 and early 2010 with repeated pronouncements about the need to open mark...