Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership: Dispute Resolution

(asked on 2nd February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether she will propose reforms to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Code of Conduct for Investor State Dispute Settle proceedings during negotiations on accession to that partnership; and is she will make a statement.


Answered by
Penny Mordaunt Portrait
Penny Mordaunt
Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
This question was answered on 9th February 2022

The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership is a pre-existing agreement signed by eleven countries and ratified by eight. It is not possible to re-write the agreement, because this is an accession process, not a brand-new free trade agreement negotiation


The Government cannot comment on the sensitive detail of live negotiations; however, accession will only take place on terms beneficial to the UK.

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