Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) Timeline
2008
- September 2008, President Bush announces negotiations for US to form TPP and invites Australia, Peru and Vietnam to join TPP negotiations, USTR, United States to Negotiate Participation in Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership [1]
2009
- 14 November 2009, President Obama announced that the United States would engage with the TPP while in Tokyo, Japan
- 14 December 2009, USTR, Trans-Pacific Partnership Announcement [2]
- 16 December 2009, USTR, Request for Comments Concerning Proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement, Federal Register [3], Volume 74, Number 240. [Page 66720-66722].
2010
- 15 – 19 March 2010, First round of negotiations, Melbourne, Australia
- 14 – 18 June 2010, Second round of negotiations, San Francisco, US
- 17 June 2010, CPATH Power Point on TPP [4]
- 5 – 8 October 2010, Third round of negotiations, Brunei
- 5 October 2010, Malaysia joined Australia, Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States and Vietnam as a party to the negotiations [5]
- 6 – 10 December 2010, Fourth round of negotiations, Auckland, New Zealand
- 3 December 2010, Public Citizen and Third World Network, Analysis of Leaked New Zealand Paper on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and Intellectual Property [6].
- 4 December 2010, New Zealand leaked Negotiating Paper on TPP, IP rights Chapter [7]
- 4 December 2010, Public Citizen, Leaked New Zealand Paper Challenges Major Pharmaceutical Companies in Trans-Pacific Trade Negotiations: Access to Medicines at Stake. [8]
- 13 December 2010, KEI, Notes from Meeting with USTR on the TPP IPR Chapter [9]
- 13 December 2010, KEI, US Industry IP memo for the TPP negotiations leaked [10]
2011
- 4 January 2011, Public Knowledge, ACTA the Sequel: The Transpacific Partnership Agreement [11]
- 6 January 2011, Mike Masnick, Son of ACTA (But Worse): Meet TPP, The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement [12]
- 14 – 18 February 2011, Fifth round of negotiations, Santiago, Chile
- 17 February 2011, Jane Kelsey, New leaks of TPP text show U.S. is playing hardball [13], TPP Watch
- 23 February 2011, New Zealand TPP Text Intellectual Property Chapter [14]
- 23 February 2011, Chile TPP Submission: Preliminary Considerations for TPP IP Chapter [15]
- 10 March 2011, KEI, The Complete Feb 10, 2011 text of the US proposal for the TPP IPR chapter [16]
- 11 March 2011, Michael Geist, U.S. Intellectual Property Demands for TPP Leak: Everything it Wanted in ACTA But Didn’t Get [17]
- 11 March 2011, Nate Anderson, Son of Acta: meet the next secret copyright treaty [18], Ars Technica
- 11 March 2011, Mike Masnick, US Proposals For Secret TPP ‘Son of ACTA’ Treaty Leaked; Chock Full of Awful Ideas [12], Tech Dirt
- 12 March 2011, Cory Doctrow, America fields “Son of ACTA” — a new, sinister, secret copyright treaty [19], BoingBoing
- 14 March 2011, KEI, Patents and Doctors, and the USTR TPP text [20]
- 14 March 2011, Glyn Moody, Why We Should Care About the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) [21], Computer World UK
- 14 March 2011, Sam Varghese, ‘Piracy’ Studies Part of a Bigger Game [22], iTWire
- 22 March 2011, KEI, UN Rapporteur for the right to health asked to intervene in the TPP negotiations [23]
- 28 March – 2 April 2011, Sixth round of negotiations, Singapore
- 20 – 24 June 2011, Seventh round of negotiations, Vietnam
- 6 – 11 September 2011, Eighth round of negotiations, San Francisco, US
- 24 -28 October 2011, Ninth round of negotiations, Lima, Peru
This is a work in progress.