Annotated Bibliography: CPTPP, CETA, and Canada's Trade Future

This annotated bibliography, prepared by a student, examines three peer-reviewed articles related to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). The assignment aims to analyze which agreement would be more beneficial for Canada in the long term. The first article, by Wang (2019), discusses the convergence of deep free trade agreements, focusing on dispute settlement and regulatory discipline. The second article, by Wolfe (2019), compares the TPP and CETA, focusing on e-commerce and privacy. The third article, by Ivus & Paczos (2019), reviews the benefits of free trade agreements on firms, focusing on intellectual property obligations. Each entry includes a summary of the article and an assessment of its relevance to the research question. The student follows APA format and citation guidelines throughout the bibliography, demonstrating their ability to summarize research, and make reasoned judgments about the validity of researched articles based on their understanding of active reading and critical thinking.

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Wang, H. (2019). The Future of Deep Free Trade Agreements: The Convergence of TPP (and
CPTPP) and CETA?. Journal of World Trade, 53(2), 317-342.
This articles reviews about the three deep free trade agreements (FTAs) such as
Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and
Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). It helps to
understand two crucial issues related to FTAs includes dispute settlement and regulatory
discipline (Ivus & Paczos, 2019). The gap between CPTPP and CETA narrows, as the rule of
most controversial aspects of TPP suspended. These two controversial aspects are investor-state
dispute settlement and intellectual property. This paper discusses that convergence depends on
the area and differences exists are bridgeable. It reviews the reasons behind convergence that
includes rule of FTA developed from WTO norms, FTA objective and other factors.
It is also suggested in the article that political willingness may bridge most of the
convergence of deep FTAs if not all. It helps to reduce the gap between the CETA and the
CPTPP. It explains that FTA deals with crucial issues such as dispute settlement and regulatory
discipline, which help to solve these issues (Wang, 2019). Therefore, the article helps to decide
which agreement will be beneficial for the Canada.
Wolfe, R. (2019). Learning about digital trade: Privacy and e-commerce in CETA and
TPP. World Trade Review, 18(S1), S63-S84.
This papers reviews comparison between the TPP and the CETA and their impact on the
e-commerce. The comparison of trade agreements is based on Canada. It emphasizes on the
technically challenging and politically sensitive issues like personal privacy, which includes
cross border information transfer, use of computing facilities (Ciuriak, Xiao & Dadkhah, 2017).

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It analyses that the CETA helps in protecting cross border information and developing e-
commerce. The government also learns how to trade digitally and use new domain.
The benefits of the CETA includes investment flow, encouraging technology, enhancing access
to digital trade between all member countries (Wolfe, 2019). It helps to understand trade
implication and protect personal information. Government of Canada and other member
countries can easily resolve issues related to border and enhance trade. Therefore, the potential
impacts of the CETA helps to conclude the appropriate free trade agreement for the Canada.
Ivus, O., & Paczos, M. (2019). Does Canada’s Foreign Trade Policy Give Innovating Canadian
Firms a Competitive Edge Internationally?
This article reviews the benefits of free trade agreements on firms, which compete
globally. Canada signed three trade agreements the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement
(CUSMA), the CETA and the CPTPP. This paper analyses the Intellectual property (IP)
obligations under the CPTPP, the CETA and the CUSMA (Ghaith, 2019). It discusses that the
use the CPTPP helps in intellectual property rights protection in a better way. It also emphasizes
on the relationship between current legal framework of Canada and these IP obligation. It also
includes the reasons behind application of IP provisions in international trade agreements and
IPRs policy’s international coordination. This paper suggests the benefits of different trade
agreements on Canadian firms.
These trade agreements protects IP rights regulations by retaining technologies and
profits of innovators. Other than protecting IP in Canada, these agreements create impact on the
composition and volume of traded goods and services. It also improve global welfare
distribution.

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References
Ciuriak, D., Xiao, J., & Dadkhah, A. (2017). Quantifying the comprehensive and progressive
agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. East Asian Economic Review, 21(4), 343-384.
Ghaith, Z. M. (2019). The Economic Impact of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement
for Trans-Pacific Partnership on Canadian and Saskatchewan Economies: A
Computable General Equilibrium-Based Analysis (Doctoral dissertation, University of
Saskatchewan).
Ivus, O., & Paczos, M. (2019). Does Canada’s Foreign Trade Policy Give Innovating Canadian
Firms a Competitive Edge Internationally?
Wang, H. (2019). The Future of Deep Free Trade Agreements: The Convergence of TPP (and
CPTPP) and CETA?. Journal of World Trade, 53(2), 317-342.
Wolfe, R. (2019). Learning about digital trade: Privacy and e-commerce in CETA and
TPP. World Trade Review, 18(S1), S63-S84.