While the United States has indicated that it is only negotiating bilateral market access in the TPP
talks with countries with which it does not have FTAs—Brunei, Malaysia, New Zealand, and
Vietnam—it has sought to go beyond current U.S. FTAs in its proposed rules chapters. This has
become a point of contention in the talks and may become an issue for Canada and Mexico as
well. The TPP may have implications for NAFTA in several areas, including intellectual property
rights (IPR), investment, services, government procurement, as well as labor and environmental
provisions