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Dr Stephen Grenville AO
Nonresident FellowLowy Institute for International PolicyAreas of Expertise: Regional economic integration; Australia's economic relations with East Asia; international financial flows and the global...
View ArticleFree trade: Untangling the noodles
Monday, 23 July 2012The Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations has fizzled out. The spate of preferential trade agreements (PTAs), misleadingly called 'free trade agreements', has created a...
View ArticleTPP: The fight over investment rights
Thursday, 1 August 2013Guest bloggerAmy Schwebel is a research officer for the Australian Council of Trade Unions.After three-and-a-half years of negotiation, the investment chapter of the Trans...
View ArticleSecrecy, intellectual property and the TPP
Thursday, 14 November 2013WikiLeaks has turned its attention to the Trans Pacific Partnership. The press,...
View ArticleThe Trans-Pacific Partnership: Where have we got to?
Monday, 16 December 2013The latest round of negotiations in Singapore for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) ...
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Where economics and geopolitics meet
Tuesday, 4 March 2014The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), repeatedly described as the 21st century platinum-standard...
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More Trans Pacific Partnership commentary
Wednesday, 5 March 2014Further pushback to the...
View ArticleCongress, midterms and the TPP
Friday, 31 October 2014US mid-terms elections will take place on 4November, with polls suggesting the Republicans will re-take control of the Senate. President Obama's next steps on the...
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Dr Leon Berkelmans
Director, International Economy Program & G20 Studies CentreLowy Institute for International PolicyAreas of Expertise: Central Banking; Economic Growth; Business CyclesRelated Issues: The G20...
View ArticleHouse of cards: Will Congress fast-track Obama's Trans-Pacific Partnership?
Tuesday, 11 November 2014Matthew Rimmer[youtube:a5Ha3IWeXOo]The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a house of cards. The blockbuster trade agreement, spanning the Pacific Rim and covering a score of...
View ArticleWill the Trans-Pacific Partnership be a good deal for Australia?
Tuesday, 3 March 2015The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is close to the make-or-break stage. It will either get US Congressional blessing soon or lose momentum and slip from the agenda. So it is...
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The TPP and intellectual property rights
Tuesday, 7 April 2015Earlier posts have discussed...
View ArticleAshton Carter on the TPP and rebalance
Tuesday, 7 April 2015New US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter is embarking on a week-long visit to Japan, Korea and Hawaii, a visit which he previewed with a speech in Arizona. It's worth extracting some...
View ArticleGold standard trade deal is now littered with many pitfalls
Gold standard trade deal is now littered with many pitfallsLeon BerkelmansSydney Morning Herald15 April 2015Publication Type: Commentary
View ArticleTPP stifling rather than sustaining
TPP stifling rather than sustainingLeon BerkelmansSydney Morning Herald7 October 2015Publication Type: Commentary
View ArticleThe failure of the TPP matters, but not for economic reasons
Thursday, 18 June 2015It seems likely that President Obama's flagship Asian free-trade deal, the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), will sink in the US Congress. Those who worry about its implications in...
View ArticleIs the US Congress the main impediment to a rules-based order?
Tuesday, 30 June 2015Malcolm JorgensenPresident Barack Obama finally has authority from the US Congress for advancing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a signature foreign policy of his final term...
View ArticleWhat's the harm in being transparent about the TPP negotiations?
Monday, 13 July 2015Now that Congress has provided President Obama with Trade Promotion Authority as we enter the last phase of the TPP negotiations, the treaty seems likely to go ahead. What...
View ArticleThe TPP is still alive and Australia will likely sign
Friday, 28 August 2015A month ago, international trade was in the headlines. President Obama had just obtained Trade Promotion Authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and in...
View ArticleTPP: Not worth the risk
Tuesday, 6 October 2015After marathon talks, the Trans Pacific Partnership has been sealed. The stage is now set for some fantastic battles to get this through national legislatures....
View ArticleThe TPP is not a containment strategy
Friday, 9 October 2015[youtube:WtNfLixcJO4]Is the TPP an effort to contain China? If you've been reading the papers or glancing at...
View ArticleDFAT: Not perfect, but in our national interest
Thursday, 15 October 2015A few days ago a suggestion was made on Crikey that DFAT, Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, should be scrapped. I was tempted to ignore it, because as far as...
View ArticleTPP: Australia should bring in China and Indonesia
Tuesday, 3 November 2015The negotiators have finally reached agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The US Congress might yet be a stumbling block, but the many US interest groups which...
View ArticleDrop the currency manipulation grudge to reap the benefits of a bigger TPP
Monday, 9 November 2015With the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) finally revealed, commentators, specialists and interest-groups can immerse themselves in the 6000 pages (with important...
View ArticleFree Trade Agreements: Transformative, terrible, or tedious?
Thursday, 26 November 2015After a flurry of activity, Australia has signed free trade agreements with many of its trade partners, and there could be more coming down the pipeline. Are these agreements...
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