The renamed TPP, the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership has been signed by 11 countries. https://globalnews.ca/news/4069924/tpp-trans-pacific-partnership-signing-canada/
Thankfully, Trump's withdrawal from the TPP allowed the Canadian people to persuade their government to push for removal of most of the contentious IP obligations that the US demanded, http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2017/11/rethinking-ip-in-the-tpp/. America is considering rejoining, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/us/politics/mnuchin-tpp-trans-pacific-partnership-trump.html
The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) will reduce tariffs in countries that together amount to more than 13 per cent of the global economy – a total of $10 trillion. With the United States, it would have represented 40 per cent.
Even without the United States, the deal will span a market of nearly 500 million people, making it one of the globe's three largest trade agreements, according to Chilean and Canadian trade statistics.
[...] Trump has also threatened to dump the North American Free Trade Agreement unless the other two members of the pact, Canada and Mexico, agree to provisions that Trump says would boost U.S. manufacturing and employment. He argues that the 1994 accord has caused the migration of jobs and factories southward to lower-cost Mexico.
[...] The 11 member countries are Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @01:48AM (9 children)
1. Canada gains trade advantages while 'Merica doesn't.
2. Draconian copyright provisions are gone because 'Merica was isolationist.
3. Canada can just negotiate a one on one trade deal with 'Merica because that is the Trump way.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @01:58AM (7 children)
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(Score: 1, Disagree) by cocaine overdose on Sunday March 11 2018, @02:24AM (6 children)
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Sunday March 11 2018, @06:13AM (5 children)
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(Score: 1) by cocaine overdose on Sunday March 11 2018, @06:27AM (4 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @06:46AM (2 children)
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(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday March 11 2018, @08:30AM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @02:51PM
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @05:26PM
Likely outcome. More jobs move to china and mexico. NAFTA promised almost the exact same outcome as TPP. How did that work out for you?
Those countries are playing you. Trump said 'hey maybe I want some tariffs'. Which brought every in to negotiate. It is called price anchoring. You open with a ludicrous high bid. You then negotiate to the middle. If you open with your middle ground you often end up with less. This is the way people negotiate. Trump is just being open with it. The media is just being ludicrous with it.
Draconian copyright provisions are gone becauseCanada can just negotiate a one on one trade deal
Ah good ol inflexibility. Because one size fits all huh?
That thing was designed to screw you over and make you think you got a good deal. Trump called it for what it was. A bad deal. I voted for him just so he would kill that deal. I got what I wanted. Everything else is gravy. Watching the media turn into a pool of drooling morons who change their story every other day has been most amusing and something I wanted to see for a long time and an added bonus.