Abstract This article provides an overview of the recently concluded Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), a treaty the parties have described as comprehensive and ambitious, yet also representing a balance of competing interests. The article focuses on the TPP’s chapters relating to investment, services, intellectual property and regulatory coherence, each of which provides insight into the motivations that drove the conclusion of the TPP and the negotiating dynamics that determined its final content. In areas such as investment, the TPP takes a more balanced approach than many earlier agreements, providing greater safeguards for the regulatory autonomy of states while still embodying core protections for foreign investors. In relation to intellectual property and services, the TPP goes beyond earlier agreements in several key respects, such as preventing the imposition of local presence requirements for service providers or requiring longer copyright terms than those demanded by other international treaties. The TPP chapter on regulatory coherence is one of the most novel features of the treaty, as regulatory coherence is not frequently included in earlier trade agreements, demonstrating the increased focus of states on addressing regulatory barriers to trade and investment. While all of these elements of the TPP are interesting in their own right, given the number and size of the parties involved in the agreement, they also provide valuable guidance about the direction of other ongoing and future preferential trade agreement negotiations, such as the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA).

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跨太平洋伙伴关系

摘要本文概述了最近缔结的《跨太平洋伙伴关系协定》（TPP），双方都将其描述为一项全面而雄心勃勃的条约，但同时也代表了利益冲突的平衡。本文重点介绍TPP与投资，服务，知识产权和监管一致性相关的章节，每一章都深入探讨了促成TPP结论的动机以及决定其最终内容的谈判动力。与许多先前的协议相比，TPP在投资等领域采取了更为平衡的方法，为国家的监管自治提供了更大的保障，同时仍然体现了对外国投资者的核心保护。关于知识产权和服务，TPP在几个关键方面超越了先前的协议，例如防止对服务提供商施加本地存在要求，或者要求比其他国际条约要求更长的版权期限。TPP关于监管一致性的一章是该条约的最新颖特征之一，因为监管一致性在早期的贸易协定中并不经常包含，这表明各国越来越重视解决贸易和投资的监管壁垒。尽管TPP的所有这些要素本身都很有趣，但鉴于协议所涉各方的数量和规模，它们也为其他正在进行的和未来的优惠贸易协议谈判（例如拟议中的谈判）的方向提供了宝贵的指导。跨大西洋贸易和投资伙伴关系（TTIP）和服务贸易协议（TiSA）。