Outside voices: CPTPP -- a rose by any other name?

“There is no doubt that the United States is losing out on market access,” writes a longtime trade analyst this week, assessing the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership, designed by the U.S. but then shunned by the incoming Trump administration. Christine McDaniel, Mercator Center senior research fellow, writes that the “awkwardly nicknamed” CPTPP has succeeded despite the absence of the U.S., with Australia and Japan singled out for credit as the 11 remaining members have created a rules-based trading bloc...