Clifford Chance

The TPP of the Iceberg - TPP Signals New Approach to Trade Liberalisation

16 October 2015

The conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement on 4 October 2015 represents an historic moment in the history of global trade liberalisation. Whilst there has already been much commentary in the press, details of the agreement are unknown and will remain so until the text is published in about a month's time. In this note, we give our initial thoughts about the immediate and future implications of the TPP in advance of commenting on the substantive text once this is available.

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