Eyes on Asia: CPTPP countries to negotiate Costa Rica’s accession

Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership countries met last week in Canada and agreed to set up a working group that will negotiate a pathway for Costa Rica to join the pact. Taiwan, meanwhile, said it was disappointed it did not receive the same treatment. In a Nov. 30 readout of the eighth CPTPP Commission meeting held in Vancouver, the Canadian government said the 11 members “achieved consensus to launch a working group to negotiate the accession of Costa...