On June 4, 2015, KEI asked USTR to provide the names of the TPP Chapters. The contents of the chapters are all officially secret, but we thought the names of the chapters should be public, and made a request for the chapter names under the Freedom of Information Act (FIOA). Today, more than 3 months later, USTR has responded to that FOIA. According to USTR, as of September 10, 2015, the names of the TPP Chapters are as follows:
- Intial Provisions and General Definitions
- Trade in Goods
- Textiles and Apparel
- Rules of Orgin
- Customs
- Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
- Technical Barriers to Trade
- Trade Remedies
- Investment
- Cross Border Trade in Services
- Financial Services
- Temporary Entry for Business Persons
- Telecommunications
- Electronic Commerce
- Government Procurement
- Competition Policy
- State Owned Enterprises
- Intellectual Property
- Labour
- Environment
- Cooperation and Capacity Building
- Competitiveness and Business Facilitation
- Development
- Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
- Regulatory Coherence
- Transparency and Anticorruption
- Administrative and Institutional Provisions
- Dispute Settlement
- Exceptions
- Final Provisions