New Zealand Says TPP Offers Three Options For Entry Into Force

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) text foresees three options for the agreement to enter into force, two of which include scenarios in which not all signatories ratify the deal within two years, according to a New Zealand government fact sheet on the legal and institutional elements of the agreement. However, these original signatory countries could join at a later date under a mechanism laid out in the agreement, the fact sheet says, without elaborating. Two of the options would allow a...