Fairfax’s Peter Martin believes negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement are close despite so-called final negotiations in Hawaii breaking down last week.
According to Martin, “all it needs is for a few of the parties to give ground on a few sticking points and all 25 chapters are ready to go”. And negotiators could still meet before the end of August to eek-out a deal; before the US enters Presidential election mode and Canadians go to the polls in October.
