Trans-Pacific Partnership details bring fresh round of scrutiny

摘要

Details of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement have been released by the 12 nations that signed its terms on Oct. 5, 2015, after seven years of negotiation. The TPP would be one of the largest trade deals in decades. Among its many features, it is being touted as removing 98% of the tariffs between the 12 signatory countries that rep-resent many of the biggest and most advanced countries on the Pacific Rim, including Canada, the U.S., Mexico, Peru, Chile, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Vietnam and Japan - with the notable exceptions of China as the world's second-largest economy, as well as South Korea, Russia, and emerging economies in Southeast Asia and elsewhere.