Following the high-profile withdrawal of the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in 2017, the remaining members agreed to move forward with a revised trade agreement called the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, or CPTPP. The CPTPP came into force on December 30 2018 between the first six signatories, Australia, Canada, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand and Singapore. Vietnam, the seventh country to ratify the new agreement, officially joined the CPTPP on January 14 2019.