Trans-Pacific Partnership hopes to benefit Pacific

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Updated November 18, 2009 09:47:32

United States President Barack Obama has thrown his weight behind using the Trans-Pacific Partnership as a way of bringing countries of the Asia-Pacific region into a free trade agreement. President Obama made his announcement on the eve of the APEC meeting in Singapore over the weekend.

Australia will host the first negotiating session for the Trans-Pacific Partnership in March next year.

has been looking at what form the Trans-Pacific Partnership will take and what it means for Pacific countries.

Presenter: Jemima Garrett
Speaker: Andrew Stoler, Executive Director of Adelaide University's Institute for International Trade; Biman Prasad, Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of the South Pacific

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