CGD senior fellow Kimberly Elliott will participate on a panel hosted by The American Society of International Law
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: A Quest for a 21st-Century Trade Agreement
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
12:00pm - 2:00pm
**Lunch from 12:00pm - 12:30pm**
Featuring
Deborah Elms
Head, Temasek Foundation Centre for Trade & Negotiations, Singapore
Thomas Bollyky
Senior Fellow for Global Health, Economics, and Development, Council on Foreign Relations
Kimberly Elliott
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development and Visiting Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics;
Meredith Kolsky Lewis
Senior Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington Law School and Co-chair, ASIL Interest Group, Law in the Pacific Rim Region.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement is being negotiated by 9 countries – Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam – with Canada and Mexico slated to join the negotiations in October.
The TPP has been promoted as “a high quality, 21st century” agreement that will set standards for future trade agreements. Several provisions under negotiation are controversial even among the member states. Sponsored by the Law in the Pacific Rim Interest Group, this panel event will examine different aspects of the TPP negotiations, including regulatory coherence, labor issues, and strategic implications of the agreement.
