Chelliah says APEC members have been studying how the European Union expanded its free trade area, as well as the ASEAN Australia-New Zealand trade agreement and the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership.
VOA: standard.2009.11.09
Announce intension to join the Trans-Pacific StrategicPartnershipAgreement (TPP) during 2011 and take speedy action to conclude an economicpartnershipagreement (EPA) with the European Union.