The UK is starting talks to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (#CPTPP)

One way of finding out what it is: look at the text.

Here goes.

It doesn’t have a Secretariat so the text is published by each govt. Google “CPTPP text”

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New Zealand is a good place to start. It has the text by chapter, 30 of them: https://t.co/UvtW9wgRky

(Canada has summaries by chapter: https://t.co/PswL4vt3WD)

#CPTPP

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“Wow! 30 chapters. Better start reading”

“Hang on. There’s more.”

https://t.co/UvtW9wgRky

#CPTPP

3/13

“Right. Is that it?”

“Those are only the side agreements involving New Zealand. Here are Australia’s”

https://t.co/1Rav6hI3zZ

#CPTPP

4/13

“Er, how many members does #CPTPP have?”

"Eleven.

“Don’t worry. We’re not going through all the side agreements.

“But these next bits are important. The Annexes. Annex 2-D contains the tariff commitments of each country.”

https://t.co/UvtW9wgRky

#CPTPP

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