An adaptation and expansion of the original
Trans-Pacific Partnership, the new agreement requires ratification
from all 11 member countries.
The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific
Partnership ("TPP-11") will come into force on December
30, 2018. The agreement was signed in Santiago, Chile, on March 8,
2018, by the 11 participating countries: Australia, Brunei
Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand,
Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. Under the rules of the agreement, it
will come into force on December 30, 2018, for the first six of
those countries to have subsequently ratified the agreement:
Australia, Canada, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, and Singapore. For
Vietnam, which was the seventh country to ratify, it will come into
force on January 14, 2019. At the time of writing, the other five
TPP-11 countries are yet to ratify, and for each of those
countries, it will come into force 60 days after it ratifies.
