TPPA under serious threat


The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement has become a political football in the US presidential elections and with the public mood so anti-FTA, this trade deal faces the real possibility of being discarded.

IT was signed in February by the 12 countries that spent five years negotiating it, and was widely expected to come into force within two years, after each country ratifies it.

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Opinion , Martin Khor , columnist

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