At a Washington International Trade Association (WITA) webinar on the CPTPP [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss-ZYzWe77Y] yesterday, Tim Groser, formerly New Zealand's ambassador to the United States, and Wendy Cutler, formerly of USTR, both offered thoughts on various aspects of the applications by China and Taiwan

On October 12, the Trade Subcommittee of the Australian Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade heard testimony from [https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard/Hansard_Display?bid=committees/commjnt/25097/&sid=0001] Elliott Charng of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office

In a letter [https://www.cotton.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/ustr_cptpp_letter.pdf] to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai dated October 5, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) called on [https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-calls-on-us-trade-representative-to-stop-chinas-admission-to-11-nation-trading-pact] Tai "to use tools available under the USMCA to stop

On September 30, the Trade Subcommittee of the Australian Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade met with several [https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard/Hansard_Display?bid=committees/commjnt/25041/&sid=0004] witnesses [https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard/

On September 30, the Trade Subcommittee of the Australian Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade met with former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott [https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard/Hansard_Display?bid=committees/commjnt/25041/&sid=0003] (currently an adviser to

On September 22 local time, just a week after China submitted an application [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/china-formally-applies-to-join-cptpp-issues-reactions-and-prospects/] to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), Taiwan submitted [https://www.ey.gov.tw/otn/47E95C7DA961C934] (link in Chinese) an application as well. As the process moves forward,

After many official and unofficial statements in recent months and years that China was considering doing so, on September 16 China formally applied to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). In this piece, we discuss: the CPTPP provisions that will guide the process; the government statements