Rasheed Ahmed

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TPP: What Can the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations and News Coverage Predict for TTIP?

Rasheed Ahmed J.D. Candidate, Columbia Law School, 2017   The Obama administration released the long awaited full text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal on November 5, 2015. The Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, is a 12-nation deal that makes up 40% of world GDP. It has been heralded as the ‘gold standard’ of trade negotiations and the ‘docking station’ that will ultimately be open to all countries. The announcement marks the largest trade-liberalization pact in a generation. Specifically, the TPP agreement has been described as an “ambitious” and “challenging” negotiation that will set common international trade and investment standards and […]