Common Contracts
1 similar Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement contracts
TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT – INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CHAPTERTrans-Pacific Partnership Agreement • January 8th, 2018
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is a free trade agreement between Australia, Brunei, Chile, Canada, the United States, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. After 7 years of negotiations, which began in February 2008, an agreement was reached on October 5, 2015, and the text was published in English on November 5, 2015. Among other matters, the TPP seeks to establish a common framework for intellectual property, strengthen labor law and environmental law standards, and establish an arbitration mechanism to solve dis- putes between States and investors.
