The Trans-Pacific Partnership
Don’t renegotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Australia was quick to welcome US President Donald Trump's casual comment that the US might be prepared to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership if a "substantially better" deal…
Behind the Australia–Canada ‘wine war’
Australia has formally lodged a complaint against restrictions some Canadian provinces have placed on the sale of imported wine in grocery stores, in what has been described,…
Whoa, Canada: Explaining the TPP deal that wasn’t
The strong expectation of the leaders of many countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), including Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, was that an agreement would be…
Trans-Pacific Partnership without America
When President Trump took America out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership in January, this seemed to be the end of the quest for a ‘platinum standard’ set of rules to govern global…
Why the TPP should be saved
Perhaps there is, as Ross Garnaut has argued, no silver lining to Donald Trump’s economics. But there may be a small silver lining to Trump’s rejection of the Trans Pacific…
Commentary
US election puts TPP in doubt
Originally published in the Nikkei Asian Review. Hillary Clinton has been forced into explicit disavowal of the TPP. She was a supporter of the TPP's "gold standard" when she was…
Commentary
TPP stifling rather than sustaining
TPP stifling rather than sustainingLeon BerkelmansSydney Morning Herald7 October 2015Leon Berkelmans
Commentary
Gold standard trade deal is now littered with many pitfalls
Gold standard trade deal is now littered with many pitfallsLeon BerkelmansSydney Morning Herald15 April 2015Leon Berkelmans