Dawson Strategic's December Briefing: A TPP Holiday Season

For readers interested in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), do check out Dawson Strategic's December briefing. Whether on the big-picture, or the leading issues within the TPP talks, the briefing's three articles are must-reads.

One particularly interesting section of Dawson Strategic's December article, The TPP: What's In It For Canada?:

Beyond its defensive interests, the TPP is a central component of Canada’s Asian and emerging markets strategy. Much of 2013 will likely be spent reconciling the trade rule-making interests and capacities of advanced industrialized economies with those of emerging economies such as Vietnam and Peru. Advanced economies like the U.S., New Zealand, Australia and Canada will bump up against each other on issues like investor-state dispute settlement and dairy market access, but there will be relatively few fireworks. In areas like intellectual property and labour mobility, the commitments that Canada is making with the EU are likely to go much deeper than anything we can expect from the TPP.