1、 CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress INSIGHTINSIGHTi i TPP Countries Sign New CPTPP Agreement without U.S. Participation name redacted Specialist in International Trade and Finance name redacted Analyst in International Trade and Finance March 9, 2018 On March 8, 2018, the 11
2、 remaining signatories of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, excluding the United States, signed the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). The CPTPP parties announced the outlines of the agreement in November 2017 and concluded the negotiations in
3、 January 2018. The CPTPP, which requires ratification by 6 of the 11 signatories to become effective, would be a vehicle to enact much of the TPP, signed by these countries and the United States in February 2016 and from which President Trump withdrew in January 2017. The withdrawal was the first ac
4、tion under the Presidents new trade policy approach, which includes a stated preference for bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations over multiparty agreements like TPP, a critical view of many existing U.S. FTAs, and a prominent focus on bilateral U.S. trade deficits as an indicator of the
