The UK wants to join a Pacific trade deal – why that might not be a risk worth taking

By Louise Curran, Professor of International Business, TBS Business School
Jappe Eckhardt, Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy, University of York

The UK government has begun negotiations to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), suggesting that joining this trade pact is a positive result of Brexit.

CPTPP, as the name implies, is an agreement on trade (and related issues) between eleven countries which border the Pacific – Australia, Brunei, Canada,…

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