Bye bye, TPP
With the new US President-elect, Mr. Donald J. Trump, it is now almost official today that the TPP Trans-Pacific Partnership is over and will not be signed by the US Congress, putting the word end to what was envisioned as the largest free-trade agreement between the USA and 11 countries along the Pacific rim, namely Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, South Korea and Vietnam, representing 40% of global economy and 30% of global trade.
Conceived as a highly sophisticated deal that started negotiations back in 2006, the complex TPP now fades away and it is going to be quite challenging to explain the reasons for this failure at the coming APEC CEO Summit Peru 2016, which takes place in Lima, Peru, later this week, from 17-19 November 2016, where US President Mr. Barrack Obama is expected to deliver a speech in front of Presidents and Prime Ministers of the 12 TPP countries, and where the President of the People’s Republic of China, Mr. Xi Jinping, will take this strategic opportunity, served on a silver plate, to sponsor the RCEP, or Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, the free-trade agreement between China and 15 Asia-Pacific countries as the best alternative to the now defunct TPP.
For the record RCEP is the extensive FTA program covering the 10 ASEAN markets (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) and the 6 markets with which ASEAN has FTAs already in place (Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea), representing 27% of global economy and 30% of global trade.
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column posted on Singapore Business Review, on 14 November 2016
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Antonio Acunzo is Chief Executive Officer at MTW GROUP, a Miami, Florida-founded market-entry strategy and brand marketing advisory firm, with Asia-Pacific office in Singapore (http://www.marketingthatworks.us). He brings with him over 20 years of experience in international business in the US and Asian markets, he’s columnist, visiting lecturer and speaker on international business and market entry strategy in Asia and the USA. And he has travelled to 95 countries and 34 US states.