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Robb Says Only One Week Of Work Left To Finish TPP If TPA Passes

June 17, 2015 at 12:10 PM
Australian Trade Minister Andrew Robb said Wednesday (June 17) that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations could be concluded within one week if the U.S. Congress passes a Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), but that the current delay on TPA could pose a real problem to the TPP negotiations if it is not resolved within three weeks. "We are literally one week of negotiation away from completing this extraordinary deal and across 12 countries and 40 per cent of the world's GDP,"...


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