Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
- Proposed
2012
- Elimination of all tariffs among all countries by 2017
- Increase regulatory coherence, eliminate redundancies in testing and certification of food and animal and plant health
- Follow TRIPS; trademarks, copyrights, patents, trade secrets, etc
- TRIPS+ may not be suitable for all TPP countries
- sanitary and phytosanitary standards
- Undermine alternative IP standards
- Mexico: Canada (NAFTA effects)
- 'BRICS' countries notably missing (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa)
