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英国 (CP)TTP加盟を正式申請へ 英国の経済的利益、食品安全基準は?
UK applies
to join trans-Pacific trade group,FT.com,21.1.31
Boris Johnson is to mark the first anniversary of Britain leaving the EU — the world’s
largest trading bloc — by formally applying to join a trade group in the Pacific.
Mr Johnson hopes Joe Biden, US president, will join the group too, opening a backdoor
to closer UK/US trade ties as hopes of an early trade deal between London and Washington fade.
Critics claim that a trade deal with 11 countries on the other side of the world would
bring limited economic benefit to the UK and see no prospect of Mr Biden being in any rush to join the group.
Mr Johnson said membership of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for
Trans-Pacific Partnership would prove that “one year after our departure from the EU we are forging new partnerships”
“Applying to be the first new country to join the CPTPP demonstrates our ambition to
do business on the best terms with our friends and partners all over the world and be an enthusiastic champion of global free trade.”
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British officials also hope a bigger prize could be to use the CPTPP as a way of
building trade ties with the US, if the Biden administration chose to join the group. “We’re hopeful the US shares our ambition to join CPTPP, which would mean closer trading ties via plurilateral means,” said one
British official
.But the new US president has vowed to improve his own country’s economy before
signing new trade deals and neither a UK/US trade deal nor membership of the CPTPP are seen as high priorities.“President Biden has repeatedly said that the CPTPP would need to be renegotiated,” said one US
administration official.
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Distance remains a key factor in trade. Even a recent UK
trade deal with the huge economy of Japan — essentially a rollover of the existing EU/Japan deal — was deemed by a UK government study as likely to increase British GDP “in the long run by about 0.07 per cent”.Another
UK government study in 2018 suggested that trade deals with non-EU countries and blocs such as China, India, Australia, the Gulf countries of south-east Asia would only raise British GDP by a total of 0.1-0.4 per
cent over the long term.By contrast the economic consequences of Boris Johnson’s “Canada-style trade deal” were assessed by the UK Treasury as likely to cut almost 5 per cent from British GDP over the longer term
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As with agricultural issues that bedevilled UK trade talks with the Trump
administration, Britain’s food standards rules could also complicate CPTPP talks with countries like Australia and New Zealand.
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UK to apply to join free trade pact with nations on other side of world,The
Guardian,21,1,31
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“At present, Liz Truss cannot even guarantee whether we would have the right to veto
China’s proposed accession if we join the bloc first.
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Sue Davies – head of consumer protection and food policy at Which? – said ministers
must ensure joining CPTPP “will bring clear consumer benefits” and will not dilute standards.
UK applying to join Asia-Pacific free trade pact CPTPP,BBC,21.1.31