Trans-Pacific Partnership. What is it and what does it mean?
1. What kind of trading organization is TPP expected to become? Which countries are the member-states of the TPP? What is the aggregate ratio of these countries to Global GDP? What are the estimated benefits of the participants?
2. What are the objectives of the TPP as the US Trade Representative Michael Frieman puts them?
3. What was the primary goal of establishing a new trading organization? What was President Obama hoping for?
4. How has the deal softened throughout the years of negotiations?
5. What has become presumably good news for Shindzo Abe? What’s Japanese automobile industry gaining from the participation in the TPP?
6. What has been one of the biggest criticisms of the negotiations? Why?
7. Whose interests is the deal expected to favour? What are the sticking points of the deal?
8. What was the process of negotiations like?
