An inter-sessional Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiating round is quietly taking place in Vancouver over the next few days — the first TPP negotiations to take place on Canadian soil.
The Japanese government on Monday sought opinions of industry lobbies and organizations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade negotiations the country will join from next month.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement should be debated in Parliament, the Malay Economic Action Council said today when voicing its objection to Malaysia’s inking of the free-trade agreement.
American officials and beef producers are reveling in a new safety designation for US cattle and see the change as particularly relevant to ongoing Transpacific trade negotiations.
To export agricultural goods, the US also exports food safety standards. The US Department of Agriculture and the US Trade Representative will soon see if the member governments of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations will accept the way US chicken processors butcher the bird.
China said it’s studying the possibility of joining the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade talks, a move that comes about a month after the existing 11 members allowed Japan to join the negotiations.
Al término de la ronda más reciente de negociaciones del acuerdo de asociación transpacífico llevada a cabo en Lima, Perú, Amigos de la Tierra Internacional anunció su apoyo a una proclama firmada por 130 organizaciones de la sociedad civil en la que se cuestionan los Acuerdos Internacionales de Inversiones.
Analysts have warned that Vietnam’s agriculture, which has been protected with the high import tariffs, would suffer from TPP once the import tariffs are removed
Negotiators working on a trade agreement among 11 Asia-Pacific nations have completed a 17th round of talks in Peru for the so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership, and say Japan will join the talks when they reconvene in Malaysia in July.
Según el gremio agropecuario, con las negociaciones de la Alianza del Pacífico se avecinan manifestaciones en sectores como el arroz, la porcicultura y la caña.
Growth in gross domestic product could be pushed down by 1.0 percentage point, or ¥4.8 trillion, if Japan joins the envisaged Trans-Pacific Partnership, a group of researchers said Wednesday.
The pace to negotiate bilateral or plurilateral free trade agreements has been accelerating rapidly over the last month as the big trading blocs seem eager to position themselves in the race for market access and standards. Special report for Intellectual Property Watch.
"Al igual que el TLCAN, el ALCA en su momento y los vigentes TLCs o TBIs , el TPP está diseñado expresamente para anular al Estado, específicamente para atrofiar sus funciones regulatorias en áreas ultra sensibles como las finanzas, la industria, el medio ambiente y las compras estatales."
There is a strong sense in the halls of the current TPP negotiation that the end is not in sight. And one of the primary reasons s a lack of consensus on intellectual property and pharmaceuticals issues, reports Infojustice from Lima.
En el marco de las negociaciones del Acuerdo de Asociación Trans Pacífico (TPP) en las que participa el Perú junto con -hasta el momento- otros diez Estados, solicitamos que el Gobierno peruano establezca límites no negociables que garanticen nuestros derechos en los siguientes temas.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement—which some have come to refer to as "NAFTA on steroids"—could ultimately affect the lives of billions of people worldwide. Neither the public, the press, nor even the US Congress knows the full extent of what’s in the text being negotiated—but corporate lobbyists know what it contains. Help us raise a reward for WikiLeaks should it publish the negotiating text of the TPP!
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Pua Mohala I Ka Po in collaboration with the International Forum on Globalization presents an international conference on Pacific transitions: "Moana Nui: Pacific peoples, lands and economies", November 9-11, 2011 Honolulu, Hawaii
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