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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.
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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.
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