The UK and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP)
Business guidance, treaty information and other documents to help you understand the UK’s accession to the CPTPP.
The UK concluded negotiations to join the CPTPP on 31 March 2023 and signed the Protocol of Accession on 16 July 2023. Entry into force of the agreement will take place once the UK and CPTPP Parties have finished their legislative processes. We expect this to happen in the second half of 2024.
The CPTPP is a Treaty incorporating, by reference, the provisions of the original Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) signed on 4 February 2016 in Auckland, New Zealand, with certain provisions suspended. The CPTPP text, setting out the incorporations and suspensions, can be found via the website of the Depositary, New Zealand. The UK’s Protocol of Accession to the CPTPP can be found below.
Business guidance
Once CPTPP enters into force for the UK, this page will be a tool for businesses to access resources that help maximise their utilisation of the agreement, including to:
- get advice on how to export on great.gov.uk
- learn more about rules of origin
- find the relevant duty rates and commodity codes for your goods in our check duties and customs procedures for exporting goods and trade tariff tools
- get help by asking the export support team a question
These documents outline the top 10 benefits to the UK from accession and how sectors across the economy will benefit following entry into force.
Treaty Information
Read the agreement documents to understand what the agreement covers and how it might apply to your business.
Correspondence
Negotiating the trade agreement
Learn about how our negotiations with the CPTPP are progressing.
Public engagement
UK as a CPTPP member
Reports
Last updated 1 February 2024 + show all updates
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'Reports' section added to the page containing 2 recently published reports.
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Guidance on how to 'Share your views on the CPTPP general review' added in the 'UK as a CPTPP member' section.
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'CPTPP: joint ministerial Statement in San Francisco, 15 November 2023' and 'Terms of reference for conducting the General Review of CPTPP' added to 'UK as a CPTPP member' section of collection page.
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'The strategic potential of the UK's accession to CPTPP' has been added to the collection page.
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New documents added to reflect the accession of the UK to the CPTPP on 16 July 2023.
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