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Policies·nz_tpp_signing_2016

Trans-Pacific Partnership signing (NZ)

NZL·2016 – ·enacted 2016-02-04·National-ledcandidate
movestrade openness↑

What the policy did

Trans-Pacific Partnership signed in Auckland 4 Feb 2016 by 12 Pacific- rim states. TPP suspended after US withdrawal Jan 2017; continued as CPTPP signed 8 Mar 2018 entering force 30 Dec 2018 for NZ.

Policy-content fingerprint — what this policy moved, on which axes

Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.

intended
↑
trade openness
regulatory.trade_openness
Trade policy openness — tariffs, non-tariff barriers, FTAs, industrial protection.
increased · moderate
more open trade
Broad regional FTA architecture; tariff phaseouts across 11 partners.

Enacted by

Empirical evidence — linked hypotheses

Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".

Estonia adopted among the most radical market-liberalisation packages of any post-Soviet state — flat tax (26% universal rate, 1994), currency board (EEK pegged to DM/EUR, 1992), rapid privatisation, unilateral free trade, and minimal capital controls — and by 2007 had recovered to Soviet-era GDP per capita levels and substantially exceeded them, while Belarusian and Ukrainian peers had not recovered comparably.
estonia_market_reform_post_soviet_growth_1991_2007inferred
viaregulatory.trade_openness
PARTIAL — recovery threshold pass=True (year_recovered=1998, 2007 vs 1991 = 70.53282727739165); Baltic−CIS gap pass=False (gap=5.1509956229348575)
partial
Canada’s long-run prosperity after the Canada–US Free Trade Agreement (1988) and NAFTA (1994) is more associated with market openness than with national industrial-policy initiatives.
canada_market_liberalisation_vs_state_industry_1988_2024inferred
viaregulatory.trade_openness
INCONCLUSIVE_DATA_PENDING — treatment 'canada_post_1988' has no within-country variation under country fixed effects
run pending
Singapore's long-run prosperity and frontier convergence are better predicted by extreme trade openness, strong rule of law, competitive product and services markets, and high economic freedom than by state ownership or industrial targeting alone.
singapore_state_capacity_market_openness_comboinferred
viaregulatory.trade_openness
PARTIAL — coef=-0.0001143, p=0.713 (above α=0.1); direction inconclusive
partial
The ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA), with the goods agreement effective 2010-01-01 for the original ASEAN-6, raised ASEAN-6 merchandise-export intensity over the 2010-2019 window relative to non-ASEAN comparator economies.
trade_lib_acfta_asean_china_2010_export_growthinferred
viaregulatory.trade_openness
PARTIAL — ATT=+3.31, p=0.324, N=295, treated_countries=1 (above α=0.10)
partial
Global value chain (GVC) participation predicts real GDP per capita income upgrading when firms can enter and exit freely, but not when rents are reserved for protected incumbents, in a panel of developing and emerging economies 1990-2020.
global_value_chain_participation_upgradeinferred
viaregulatory.trade_openness
INCONCLUSIVE_DATA_PENDING — insufficient observations after listwise deletion (22)
run pending
Across countries 1990-2020, accession to a substantive free-trade agreement (FTA) — defined as a WTO-notified preferential-trade agreement going beyond MFN with measurable bilateral tariff reductions — is followed by higher trade openness and higher per-capita real GDP growth in the post-accession 5-year window than in the matched pre-accession 5-year window.
liberal_free_trade_partner_growth_panel_1990_2020inferred
viaregulatory.trade_openness
PARTIAL — ATT=-4.069, p=0.264, N=1342, treated_countries=61 (above α=0.10)
partial
China's WTO accession (2001-12-11) triggered a structural acceleration in Chinese merchandise-export intensity and manufacturing value-added relative to a synthetic-control donor pool of large emerging economies that did not accede to the WTO on the same date.
trade_lib_china_wto_2001_manufacturing_export_surgeinferred
viaregulatory.trade_openness
PARTIAL — mean_gap=+4.793, |gap|/pre_sd=2.3, p_perm=0.833 (gap below 0.5×pre_sd or placebo p≥0.10)
partial
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), with trading formally commencing 2021-01-01, has not yet produced a measurable acceleration in aggregate African trade-openness ratios over the 2021-2024 window relative to a synthetic-control donor pool of non-AfCFTA emerging-market regions, because of slow tariff- schedule ratification, COVID-19 trade disruption, and weak cross-border infrastructure.
trade_lib_afcfta_2021_intra_african_tradeinferred
viaregulatory.trade_openness
REFUTED — shape=panel_summary, sign - OPPOSITE claim +; |Δ_log|=0.288, ratio=0.75
refuted

Similar historical policies

Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.

Abraham Accords UAE-Israel normalisation
ARE, ISR·2020
match
0.8
trade openness
Jebel Ali Port and Free Zone establishment 1979-1985
ARE·1979
match
0.8
trade openness
Convertibility Plan (Plan Cavallo) — Argentina 1991-2002
ARG·1991
match
0.8
trade openness
Austria EU accession 1995
AUT·1994
match
0.8
trade openness
Hawke-Keating reform package (1983-1996)
AUS·1983
match
0.8
trade openness
KAFTA-JAEPA-ChAFTA free trade agreement trifecta
AUS·2014
match
0.8
trade openness
Hawke-Keating market reforms — Australia 1983-1996
AUS·1983
match
0.8
trade openness
New Economic Policy — Decree 21060 (Bolivia stabilisation 1985)
BOL·1985
match
0.8
trade openness

References