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.
UK traders can trade with the following Parties under CPTPP:
- Japan
- Singapore
- Chile
- New Zealand
- Vietnam
- Peru
- Malaysia
- Brunei
This is because those Parties have ratified the UK’s accession to CPTPP.
From 24 December 2024, UK traders will be able to trade with the following Parties under CPTPP:
- Australia
Canada and Mexico have not yet ratified the UK’s accession to CPTPP, therefore UK businesses will not be able to trade under CPTPP with these Parties until they do so.
When a CPTPP Party ratifies the UK’s accession to CPTPP, the agreement will be ready to be applied with that Party 60 days later.
We’ll update this page when each Party ratifies the UK’s accession.
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 on the website of the Depositary, New Zealand. The UK’s Protocol of Accession to the CPTPP can be found on this page.
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
Updates to this page
Published 31 March 2023Last updated 19 December 2024 + show all updates
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Amended page to reflect ratification of UK's membership of CPTPP.
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Public submissions on environment and labour FTA chapters added to the collection page.
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The UK's accession to CPTPP for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been added to the collection page.
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'CPTPP General Review: factual summary of responses' and 'CPTPP: Period of public engagement for the accession for Costa Rica' added to 'Public engagement' section of collection page. 'CPTPP: joint ministerial statement in Vancouver, Canada, 28 November 2024' added to the 'UK as a CPTPP member' section of collection page.
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Brunei added to list of countries that UK businesses can trade with under CPTPP rules from 15 December 2024. Australia also added from 24 December 2024.
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On 15 December 2024 the UK will accede to CPTPP. This means that UK traders will be able to trade with the following Parties under CPTPP: Japan, Singapore, Chile, New Zealand, Vietnam, Peru, Malaysia. We’ll update this page when other Parties ratify the UK’s accession.
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'CPTPP: joint ministerial statement in Arequipa, 18 May 2024' added to 'UK as a CPTPP member' section of collection page.
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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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First published.