TREATY PROVISIONS. 14. The CPTPP was signed on 8 March 2018 and entered into force as between New Zealand and Canada on 30 December 2018. The CPTPP is the successor agreement of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) which included the United States as one of its members. The TPP was signed on 4 February 2016 but never entered into force following the United States’ formal withdrawal from the TPP on 23 January 2017. The CPTPP provisions governing Tariff Rate Quota Administration (found in Articles 2.28 through 2.32) were not changed in any way from the text that was agreed upon in the TPP, nor was Annex 2-D (Tariff Schedule of Canada) or the TRQs that were set forth in Appendix A to that Tariff Schedule changed when the CPTPP superseded the TPP.4
TREATY PROVISIONS. The Congo treaty is virtually identical to the model bilateral investment treaty used by the administration and meets all of its objectives set forth above. The Congo reserved the right to maintain limited exceptions to national or MFN treatment in the following sectors or matters set forth in the Annex to the treaty: The insurance sector; government lending and insurance programs; energy production; certified customs agents; real estate; radio and television broadcasts; telephone and telegraph services; drinking water supply; rail transportation; and air transport. ENTRY INTO FORCE The treaty enters into force 30 days after exchange of ratification and continues in force for at least ten years. Thereafter, either party may terminate the treaty, subject to one year's written notice. The treaty text and the administration's summary analysis of the treaty is set forth in Treaty Doc. 102-1. The administration's responses to committee questions regarding the interpretation of treaty provisions is available for review as part of the committee's hearing record on this treaty. COMMITTEE ACTION On August 4, 1992, the committee held a hearing on this treaty. Testimony was received by the Xxx. Xxxxxx X. McAllister, Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs Bureau, Department of State. The committee also received answers from the administration to numerous questions regarding the operation of the bilateral investment treaty program and the provisions of this treaty. This material, together with the administration's "Description of the U.S. Model Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) of February 1992", has been made a part of the official record of these hearings. In addition, the committee received statements in support of the treaty from the National Association of Manufacturers, the United States Council for International Business and Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx, Associate Professor of Law, Western State University College of Law, San Diego, California. The committee voted to report favorably the treaty, and recommends that the Senate give its advice and consent to ratification thereof by a voice vote, with a quorum being present, at a meeting on August 6, 1992. TEXT OF RESOLUTION OF RATIFICATION
TREATY PROVISIONS. The Congo treaty is virtually identical to the model bilateral investment treaty used by the administration and meets all of its objectives set forth above. The Congo reserved the right to maintain limited exceptions to national or MFN treatment in the following sectors or matters set forth in the Annex to the treaty: The insurance sector; government lending and insurance programs; energy production; certified customs agents; real estate; radio and television broadcasts; telephone and telegraph services; drinking water supply; rail transportation; and air transport.
