{"id":45028,"date":"2024-12-17T10:37:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T10:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/cptpp-uk-has-joined-asias-trade-club-but-what-is-it\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T10:37:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T10:37:05","slug":"cptpp-uk-has-joined-asias-trade-club-but-what-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/cptpp-uk-has-joined-asias-trade-club-but-what-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"CPTPP: UK has joined Asia&#8217;s trade club but what is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The key perk is greater access to each others&#8217; markets, and a pledge to eliminate or reduce 95% of import charges or tariffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But some are kept to protect sensitive domestic areas, such as Japan&#8217;s rice farming industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Also, manufacturers that get components from lots of different places can claim their products qualify for preferential treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That means they can tick the so-called &#8220;rules of origin&#8221; box, as long as 70% of those components come from any of the participating countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The provisions could help UK producers of items such as machinery and medicines &#8211; our most valuable exports to those nations &#8211; by reducing their costs and allowing them to expand their supply chains across the constituent countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Away from trade, membership means investors from CPTPP countries get the same treatment as domestic firms when they put money into projects taking place in other member states, which could benefit UK firms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2017, the CPTPP nations accounted for about \u00a31 in every \u00a312 of foreign investment in the UK, and the same going the other way &#8211; supporting business and jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In return, countries must co-operate on regulations, such as food standards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, unlike the European Union, the CPTPP is neither a single market nor a customs union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So countries are not required to have identical regulations and standards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And countries can strike their own trade deals with others, as the UK has with the EU &#8211; although membership of the CPTPP would not be compatible with re-joining the EU itself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/explainers-55858490\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The key perk is greater access to each others&#8217; markets, and a pledge to eliminate or reduce 95% of import charges or tariffs. But some are kept to protect sensitive domestic areas, such as Japan&#8217;s rice farming industry. Also, manufacturers that get components from lots of different places can claim their products qualify for preferential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[61],"tags":[7040,2253,11082,8637,219],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45030,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45028\/revisions\/45030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}