Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership 2022-07-21
2022-07-21
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Q1
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The UK is in the final phase of negotiations for joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
What progress her Department has made on securing UK membership of the comprehensive and progressive agreement for trans-Pacific partnership.
The UK is well on the way to joining CPTPP, one of the largest trading blocs in the world. We are now in market access negotiations, which are the final phase of the accession process.
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Q2
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The UK is in the final phase of negotiations for joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). The questioner seeks to understand the benefits of this agreement.
Will she outline the real advantages that CTP—whatever the bloody thing is called—will bring, and will she perhaps also say what sort of difference it will make to our trading relationship with the United States?
The hon. Gentleman is right to point to the benefits of joining this trading bloc: 99.9% of all UK goods are eligible for tariff-free access, it will increase wages in this country, and obviously it will help our relationships with other nations outside the bloc.
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The specific difference to US trading relationship was not addressed.
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Q3
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The UK is in the final phase of negotiations for joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). The questioner seeks to understand benefits for Northern Irish businesses.
If the United Kingdom becomes part of this bloc, will the Minister outline what trading advantages will come directly to Northern Ireland and its businesses?
Those very same benefits will also apply to Northern Ireland, and the hon. Gentleman will know that we are providing extra support to help with the particular export opportunities, including for services, that are so strong in Northern Ireland.
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Specific trading advantages were not detailed.
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Q4
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The questioner supports the UK's role in promoting free trade internationally.
Does my right hon. Friend agree that being a force for good in the world for free trade is an absolutely honourable goal and one that the UK should promote at every opportunity?
My right hon. Friend is absolutely right that the UK, a G7 nation, leaving the regulatory orbit of the EU is an international event. It gives us a huge opportunity, alongside nations like the United States, to set out our view of the world and of capitalism and to fight for the things we believe in.
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No specific action or commitment was made.
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Q5
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Campaigners are concerned that UK joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) could affect deforestation commitments.
What assurances can the Minister provide that our trade deals will not put our environmental commitments at risk?
I would point to the forestry programmes that this nation has funded—some more than 30 years old—in parts of the world that are covered by this trading bloc. This country has an important history under successive Governments of protecting not only our own environment but that of other nations.
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No direct assurance was given.
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Q6
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There has been criticism that the Department for International Trade is dodging scrutiny regarding the Australia deal, and now there are negotiations for joining CPTPP.
Will the Minister promise that this House will be granted a full and timely debate before any deal is ratified?
I will ask my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State to set out any parliamentary business and timetable for any future trade agreements. We have clearly committed to a particular process. For my part, every time the International Trade Committee or other body of this House has asked me to go before it, I have.
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No promise was given regarding full and timely debate.
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