Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (Accession) Debate

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Department: Department for International Trade

Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (Accession)

Kenny MacAskill Excerpts
Wednesday 17th June 2020

(4 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Elizabeth Truss Portrait Elizabeth Truss
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We are the second largest malting barley exporter to Japan after Canada and we have fine products both in Scotland and in my own region of East Anglia. Getting access to that wider CPTPP agreement, as well as reducing the tariffs in Japan, will give more opportunities to those fantastic producers.

Kenny MacAskill Portrait Kenny MacAskill (East Lothian) (SNP) [V]
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With the grave threat posed to our own public services, let alone to those of developing nations, by the investor-state dispute settlement, will the Secretary of State commit to seeking an exemption in future trade deals, as has been achieved by New Zealand through bilateral negotiations with CPTPP?

Elizabeth Truss Portrait Elizabeth Truss
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I have already said that I will not sign up to something that threatens our right to regulate here in the UK.