Britain says it's too soon to seek TPP trade pact membership

Beijing

BRITISH trade minister Liam Fox said on Wednesday that it was too soon to seek membership of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact.

"We don't know what the success of the TPP is going to look like, because it isn't yet negotiated. So it would be a little bit premature for us to be wanting to sign up to something that we're not sure what the final details will look like," he told Reuters.