Senate debates

Tuesday, 16 October 2018

Bills

Customs Amendment (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Implementation) Bill 2018, Customs Tariff Amendment (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Implementation) Bill 2018; In Committee

7:11 pm

Photo of Peter Whish-WilsonPeter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

They can. I was going to ask for you some examples, especially for multilateral deals like the TPP. My understanding was that this is the biggest trade deal in history. It's probably the first multilateral deal of its time. How many times have countries gone to 10 other member countries of a multilateral trade deal and renegotiated the terms of those deals? Can you give us some examples? It's really important for us to try and understand how easy or how hard it's going to be for a future Labor government to renegotiate the TPP.

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