圣何塞——总统劳拉·费尔南德斯10月28日表示，哥斯达黎加政府已撤回加入《全面与进步跨太平洋伙伴关系协定》（CPTPP）的申请，并解除了外贸部长印第安娜·特雷霍斯的职务。
SAN JOSE - Costa Rica's government has withdrawn its bid to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), a major trans-Pacific trade pact, and dismissed its foreign trade minister, president Laura Fernandez said on Oct 28.
费尔南德斯称，解除特雷霍斯职务是因为缺乏透明度。特雷霍斯曾在前任政府担任副部长期间参与谈判。总统未说明谁将接替特雷霍斯。
Fernandez said the removal of foreign trade minister Indiana Trejos, who had participated in the negotiations as deputy minister during the previous administration, was due to lack of transparency. The president did not say who is due to replace Trejos.
放弃申请的决定是在哥斯达黎加生产者团体、特别是农业部门抗议之后作出的。
The decision to scrap the application comes after protests from Costa Rica's producer groups, especially from the agriculture sector.
CPTPP是一个由美洲、亚洲、大洋洲和欧洲12个国家组成的自由贸易集团，占全球国内生产总值近15%。
The CPTPP is a free trade bloc of 12 nations across the Americas, Asia, Oceania and Europe that accounts for nearly 15% of global gross domestic product.
费尔南德斯在社交媒体发布的视频中说：“尽管这看似是一个绝佳机会，但谈判代表将其全部内容列为机密，以至于几乎没人知道其中包含什么。”
“Although it might seem like an excellent opportunity, its full content was declared secret by the negotiators to the point that almost no one knows what it entails,” Fernandez said in a video posted on social media.
哥斯达黎加于2022年提交加入CPTPP申请，并举行了100多场高层会议以在成员国间建立共识。2024年11月，该集团正式邀请这个中美洲国家加入CPTPP。
Costa Rica submitted a request to join the CPTPP in 2022 and held more than 100 high-level meetings to build consensus among members. In November 2024 the bloc formally invited the Central American country form part of the CPTPP.
此后，哥斯达黎加已将其法规与协定规则进行对照审查，并就货物和服务市场准入进行了谈判。
Since then, Costa Rica has reviewed its regulations against the agreement's rules and negotiated market access for goods and services.
CPTPP于2018年生效，是《跨太平洋伙伴关系协定》（TPP）的分支，美国退出该拟议贸易集团后，CPTPP应运而生。
The CPTPP went into effect in 2018 as an offshoot of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, following the United States' departure from that proposed trade bloc.