an outstanding post for anybody interested in trade transparency. Given WTO experience arguable that a proper documents database is hard to construct without a secretariat. I hope next post looks at provisions and performance on notifications and importance for traders @coppetainpu.bsky.social
This post was surprisingly popular this week. I did some digging into how to keep track of the CPTPP’s various committees (among other things). I think there is some room for improvement! open.substack.com/pub/tradenot...
Properly following CPTPP implementation (or searching CPTPP records) requires jumping across various government websites and often knowing specifically where to look. In this post I show the problems ...
Thanks Robert - very kind of you to say. Yes, I had started looking at CPTPP's notification provisions as well, but the post was getting unwieldy. A CPTPP Secretariat would be a big help on these issues, unfortunately I haven't seen any parties willing to make it happen though (due largely to costs)