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An international investment agreement for East Asia Issues, recent developments and refinements Losari, Junianto James
Junianto James LosariApril 4th, 2019
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) will potentially replace the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as the largest trade cooperation by economic size. The TPP pact has been revived in the absence of the US and renamed as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for TPP (CPTPP), and it retains most of the negotiated elements in the TPP.1 The CPTPP is ex- pected to enter into force in December 2018. CPTPP Article 1 provides that the provisions of the TPP are incorporated, by reference, into and made part of the Agreement mutatis mutandis, with certain exceptions and suspension of application of certain provisions specified in its Annex. Therefore, reference to the text of the TPP in this chapter refers to the CPTPP. At this stage, it may be premature to declare RCEP’s new title because the negotiating states are yet to conclude the agreement. RCEP negotiations commenced in November 2011; by the time this chapter was written, more than five years have passed, and 20 rou
