WASHINGTON – The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) on Monday expressed its approval of the Bush administration’s announcement of negotiations to enter the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership, a free trade agreement between Chile, New Zealand, Singapore and Brunei.
The United States began talks in March to enter the regional free-trade agreement, also known as P4, with investment and financial services. The P4 trade agreement went into effect in 2006 and includes a clause to allow other nations to join.