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The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Its Critics: An introduction and a petition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Sachie Mizohata
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement is a proposed trade pact that Japan is currently negotiating with Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam (as of September 2013). The TPP aims to increase the liberalization of economies in the Pacific region through abolition of tariffs on trade as well as reregulation. In 2008, the United States joined the talks “and has espoused a hard core complete free trade policy,” which has vastly expanded the scope of the negotiations. With both the US and Japan as participants, the pact would cover nearly 40% of the world's economy. Japan officially joined one of final rounds of the negotiations in July 2013 in Malaysia, as the participating countries intend to finalize the TPP negotiations (at least partially) by the end of 2013.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 36 , September 2013 , e3
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1 Though, some exceptions may be made, by keeping import tariffs on certain goods and services for 7 to 10 years. See Nobuhiro Suzuki, “最悪の選択・ＴＰＰ．許しがたい背信行為 (The TPP: the worst choice. Perfidy that is hard to forgive),” Sekai, April 2013 (842), pp. 40-48.

2 James Simpson, “TPP a risky venture for Japan,” The Japan Times, March 12, 2013.

3 Cherrie Lou Billones, “Japan and US reach agreements on auto exceptions in TPP,” The Japan Daily Press, March 6, 2013.

4 See here (accessed September 7, 2013).

5 Lori Wallach and Ben Beachy, “Obama's Covert Trade Deal,” The New York Times, June 2, 2013; Dean Baker, “The Pacific free trade deal that's anything but free,” The Guardian, August 27, 2012; On the site of Public Citizen, “More Power to Corporations to Attack Nations,” (accessed September 7, 2013). Also, see www.exposethetpp.org (accessed September 7, 2013).

6 Satoshi Daigo's blog. (accessed September 7, 2013).

7 Ibid.

8 Laurel Sutherlin, “What You Need to Know About a Worldwide Corporate Power Grab of Enormous Proportions,” AlterNet, 2012 (accessed Sepember 7, 2013).

9 Lori Wallach and Ben Beachy, 2013.

10 Laurel Sutherlin, 2012.

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16 Yasumi Iwakami.

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18 Dean Baker, 2012.

19 Ukeru Magosaki, “最悪の選択・ＴＰＰ．国家主 権投げ捨てる安倍政権 (The TPP: the worst choice. The Abe administration that throws away the national sovereignty),” Sekai, April 2013 (842), pp. 49-54.

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22 Nobuhiro Suzuki, 2013.

23 Ibid.

24 Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine. London: Penguin Books, 2007, p. 8.

25 Ibid., p. 7.

26 Gavan McCormack, “Japan's Client State (Zokkoku) Problem,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol 11, Issue 25, No. 2, June 24, 2013.

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33 Lori Wallach and Ben Beachy, 2013.