PCPC Keeps Up Push For Trans-Pacific Partnership Ratification
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
The Personal Care Products Council maintains enthusiastic support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which it says will bolster the US cosmetics industry by reducing the costs and burden of trade overseas. The deal involving the US and 11 other countries was finalized in October following more than five years of negotiations and now awaits an up-or-down vote from Congress.
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