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TPP is signed! What do trade agreements do?

Geoff Riley

5th February 2016

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The signing of the Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement in Auckland, New Zealand in February 2016 raises once again the topical issue of trade agreements and their economic and social benefits and costs.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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