Trans-Pacific Partnership Business Priorities

SIFMA, as part of the U.S. Business Coalition for Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), urges the United States and its TPP trading partners to work to achieve a high-standard and comprehensive agreement to promote greater economic growth and integration and eliminate trade and investment barriers and competitive distortions.  The letter highlights the need for countries to “face other sensitive issues head-on and recognize they need to adopt core principles and commercially meaningful outcomes” in areas from investment, intellectual property and government procurement to market access.

The U.S. Business Coalition for TPP is a broad-based and cross-sectoral group of U.S. companies and associations that have joined together to promote the United States’ negotiation of a comprehensive, high-standard and commercially meaningful Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement with Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam.  The Coalition’s members represent the principal sectors of the U.S. economy, including agriculture, manufacturing, merchandising, processing, publishing, retailing and services.