2016 Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

2016 TPP

• ASEAN Documents
  • ASEAN Economic Community
  • ASEAN External Relations

“Article 28.2: Cooperation

The Parties shall at all times endeavour to agree on the interpretation and application of this Agreement, and shall make every attempt through cooperation and consultations to arrive at a mutually satisfactory resolution of any matter that might affect its operation or application.”

“Article 28.23: Alternative Dispute Resolution

1. Each Party shall, to the maximum extent possible, encourage and facilitate the use of arbitration and other means of alternative dispute resolution for the settlement of international commercial disputes between private parties in the free trade area.
2. To this end, each Party shall provide appropriate procedures to ensure observance of agreements to arbitrate and for the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards in such disputes. 

A Party shall be deemed to be in compliance with paragraph 2 if it is a party to, and is in compliance with, the United Nations Convention of the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards done at New York on 10 June 1958.”

New Zealand

Annex 1-A: Party-Specific Definitions

Annex 2-A: National Treatment and Import and Export Restrictions

Annex 2-B: Remanufactured Goods

Annex 2-C: Export Duties, Taxes or Other Charges

Annex 2-D: Tariff Commitments

Annex 3-A: Other Arrangements

Annex 3-B: Minimum Data Requirements

Annex 3-C: Exceptions to Article 3.11 (De Minimis)

Annex 3-D: Product Specific Rules of Origin 

Appendix 1 to Annex: 3-D: Provisions related to the Product-Specific Rules of Origin for certain vehicles and parts of vehicles

Annex 4-A: Textiles and Apparel Product-Specific Rules of Origin 

Appendix 1 to Annex 4-A: Short Supply List of Products

Annex 6-A: Practices Relating to Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings

Annex 8-A: Wine and Distilled Spirits

Annex 8-B: Information and Communications Technology Products

Annex 8-C: Pharmaceuticals

Annex 8-D: Cosmetics

Annex 8-E: Medical Devices

Annex 8-F: Proprietary Formulas for Pre-packaged Foods and Food Additives

Annex 8-G: Organic Products

Annex 9-A: Customary International Law

Annex 9-B: Expropriation

Annex 9-C: Expropriation Relating to Land

Annex 9-D: Service of Documents on a Party Under Section B (Investor State Dispute Settlement)

Annex 9-E: Transfers

Annex 9-F: DL-600

Annex 9-G: Public Debt

Annex 9-H

Annex 9-I: Non-Conforming Measures Ratchet Mechanism

Annex 9-J: Submission of a Claim to Arbitration

Annex 9-K: Submission of Certain Claims for Three Years After Entry into Force

Annex 9-L: Investment Agreements

Annex 10-A: Professional Services

Annex 10-B: Express Delivery Services

Annex 10-C: Non-Conforming Measures Ratchet Mechanism

Annex 11-A: Cross-Border Trade

Annex 11-B: Specific Commitments

Annex 11-C: Non-Conforming Measures Ratchet Mechanism

Annex 11-D: Authorities Responsible For Financial Services

Annex 11-E

Annex 12-A. Temporary Entry for Business Persons

Annex 13-A: Rural Telephone Suppliers – United States

Annex 13-B: Rural Telephone Suppliers – Peru

Annex 15-A. Government Procurement

Annex 16-A: Application of Article 16.2, Article 16.3 and Article 16.4 to Brunei Darussalam

Annex 17-A: Threshold Calculation

Annex 17-B: Process for Developing Information Concerning State-Owned Enterprises and Designated Monopolies

Annex 17-C: Further Negotiations

Annex 17-D: Application to Sub-Central State-Owned Enterprises and Designated Monopolies

Annex 17-E: Singapore

Annex 17-F: Malaysia

Annex 18-A: Annex to Article 18.7.2

Annex 18-B: Chile

Annex 18-C: Malaysia

Annex 18-D: Peru

Annex 18-E: Annex to Section J

Annex 18-F: Annex to Section J

Annex 20-A

Annex 20-B

Annex 26-A Transparency and Procedural Fairness for Pharmaceutical Products and Medical Devices

Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

“Article 30.5: Entry into Force

1. This Agreement shall enter into force 60 days after the date on which all original signatories have notified the Depositary in writing of the completion of their applicable legal procedures.
2. In the event that not all the original signatories have notified the Depositary in writing of the completion of their applicable legal procedures within a period of two years of the date of the signature of this Agreement, it shall enter into force 60 days after the expiry of this period if at least six of the original signatories, which together account for at least 85 per cent of the combined gross domestic product of the original signatories in 2013 have notified the Depositary in writing of the completion of their applicable legal procedures within this period. 
3. In the event that this Agreement does not enter into force under paragraph 1 or 2, it shall enter into force 60 days after the date on which at least six of the original signatories, which together account for at least 85 per cent of the combined gross domestic product of the original signatories in 2013, have notified the Depositary in writing of the completion of their applicable legal procedures.
4. After the date of entry into force of this Agreement under paragraph 2 or 3, an original signatory for which this Agreement has not entered into force shall notify the Parties of the completion of its applicable legal procedures and its intention to become a Party to this Agreement. The Commission shall determine within 30 days of the notification by that original signatory whether this Agreement shall enter into force with respect to the notifying original signatory.
5. Unless the Commission and the notifying original signatory referred to in paragraph 4 agree otherwise, this Agreement shall enter into force for that notifying original signatory 30 days after the date on which the Commission makes an affirmative determination.”

1994 Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization

2018 Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership

Office of the United States Trade Representative accessed on 24/06/2025

New Zealand Foreign Affairs and Trade accessed on 24/06/2025

The initial 12 parties to this instrument were Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, United States of America, and Viet Nam.

Negotiations were completed on 5 October 2015 in Atlanta, United States of America and the text was signed on 4 February 2016. The text provided here is the legally verified text released on 26 January 2016. In January 2017, the USA withdrew from the TPP. The executive order was issued by President Donald Trump on 23 January 2017 and the official notification to depository New Zealand was dated 30 January 2017.

In May 2017, all the TPP signatories (except the USA), led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, agreed to revive the agreement. In January 2018, the CPTPP was created as a succeeding agreement that retained two-thirds of the TPP’s provisions and was signed on 8 March 2018.

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Ratification information listed above was compiled from sources including the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and trade and news reports.