Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership: Intellectual Property

(asked on 2nd February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether she will seek a complete carve out of audio-visual services from the intellectual property chapter of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement as part of her proposals to join that partnership; and if she will make a statement.


Answered by
Penny Mordaunt Portrait
Penny Mordaunt
Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
This question was answered on 9th February 2022

The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership is a pre-existing agreement signed by eleven countries and ratified by eight. It is not possible to re-write the agreement, because this is an accession process, not a brand-new free trade agreement negotiation


The Government cannot comment on the sensitive detail of live negotiations; however, accession will only take place on terms beneficial to the UK.

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