The Trans-Pacific Partnership: A Quest for a Twenty-first Century Trade Agreement Book

Part I. Introduction: 1. What is 'high quality, twenty-first century' anyway?; Part II. The Past: Origins of the Agreement: 2. An overview and snapshot of the TPP negotiations; 3. US PTAs: what's been done and what it means for the TPP negotiations; 4. From the P4 to the TPP: transplantation or transformation?; 5. Incorporating development among diverse members; Part III. The Present: Twenty-First Century Elements and Obstacles: 6. Negotiations over market access in goods; 7. Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations: rules of origin; 8. Trade in services; 9. Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement towards Innovations in Investment Rule-Making; 10. The intellectual property chapter in the Trans-Pacific Partnership; 11. Regulatory coherence in the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks; 12. Environmental issues in the Trans-Pacific Partnership; 13. Labour standards and the TPP; 14. What is to be done with export restrictions?; Part IV. The Future: High-Quality Meets Regional and Global Realities: 15. Achieving a Free Trade Agreement of the Asia-Pacific: does the TPP present the most attractive path?: 16. APEC and TPP: are they mutually reinforcing?; 17. Coping with multiple uncertainties: Latin America in the TPP negotiations; 18. The TPP: multilateralizing regionalism or the securization of trade policy?; 19. The TPP in a multilateral world; Part V. The TPP Negotiations: The Quest for Quality: 20. Conclusions.