Ukraine – the latest CPTPP wannabe?

Ukraine – the latest CPTPP wannabe?
If the London can join a trans-Pacific trade deal, why not Kiev? (Image: Getty)
Tracey Epps
News agencies have reported that Ukraine may apply to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) by the end of the year.The likelihood of this would have seemed remote, to say the least, in 2015 when negotiators were hammering out the final details of the CPTPP’s forerunner, the TPP.  The idea was always to provide for accessions, but despite legal provisions that allow any economy to apply to join, there was always an underlying perception that the agreement was essentially a regional, geographically-fo...

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