TPP – TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT

TPP Issue-by-Issue Information Center

The United States is participating in negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement with 11 other Asia-Pacific countries (Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam) – a trade agreement that will open markets, set high-standard trade rules, and address 21st-century issues in the global economy. By doing so, TPP will promote jobs and growth in the United States and across the Asia-Pacific region.

The Obama Administration is pursuing TPP to unlock opportunities for American manufacturers, workers, service providers, farmers, and ranchers – to support job creation and wage growth. We are working hard to ensure that TPP will be a comprehensive deal, providing new and meaningful market access for goods and services; strong and enforceable labor standards and environmental commitments; groundbreaking new rules designed to ensure fair competition between state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and private companies; commitments that will improve the transparency and consistency of the regulatory environment to make it easier for small- and medium-sized businesses to operate across the region; a robust intellectual property (IP) rights framework to promote innovation, while supporting access to innovative and generic medicines and an open Internet; and obligations that will promote a thriving digital economy, including new rules to ensure the free flow of data.

This page and the following links describes the Administration’s goals and objectives for the TPP, and presents the main elements of each issue area from the United States’ perspective. Negotiations toward a TPP agreement are ongoing, and many of the elements detailed below are not settled. These are our objectives; there is still work to be done to achieve them. This document lays out the Administration’s vision, which the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is advancing, of harnessing trade as a tool for economic growth and supporting jobs, and building opportunity for Americans in the context of an agreement that will benefit all TPP countries.

Please click the links below, or to the left, for chapter-by-chapter overviews of the United States negotiating objectives in the Trans Pacific Partnership.

E-Commerce and Telecommunications

Competition Policy and State-Owned Enterprises

Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Intellectual Property Rights

Technical Barriers to Trade and Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures

Transparency, Anticorruption and Regulatory Coherence