Final Round of TPP Talks Set for End of September Steven Chase - The Globe and Mail
go to original September 20, 2015

TTP: Mexico’s unique position in the agreement (GEDProject)

Twelve countries including Canada are preparing to try and wrap up a massive Pacific Rim trade deal shortly and a final round of negotiations is now set for Atlanta, Georgia near the end of this month, a Canadian government official says.

Chief negotiators for each country will start talks September 26 with the aim of finalizing a Trans-Pacific Partnership deal – and trade ministers are expected to join them in the middle of the following week, possibly September 30, the official says.

...A late July effort to finalize a deal among TPP partners hit a wall after Canada and Mexico balked at domestic content rules for vehicle imports agreed to by Washington and Tokyo that could hit the NAFTA partners’ auto sectors hard.

Canada, the U.S., Mexico and Japan are meeting in San Francisco to try to resolve their deadlock over domestic content rules for autos and auto parts. Under existing NAFTA rules, a car can be sold in Canada, the United States or Mexico without facing tariffs as long as 62.5 per cent of it originates in one or more of these three countries.

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