New Zealand
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10-Oct-2018 NZ Herald
NZ plays down threat to European agri interests in FTA talks
New Zealand trade negotiators are trying to get their European counterparts to recognise that the nation’s agricultural exports are small-fry in comparison to the regional bloc’s farming sector.
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9-Oct-2018 Daily Blog
Lessons for the Left from NAFTA Mark-II
The choice is not between the unilateralism of a populist autocrat, captive of the world’s most powerful corporations, on one hand, and the failed neoliberal model, polished in the TPPA on the other. A few clip-on statements on gender and small and medium enterprises is not a progressive alternative.
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3-Oct-2018 Daily Blog
Converting resistance to TPPA into a new agenda for change
Our aim is to move beyond campaigns to stop these deals one by one, and create popular and political momentum for a genuinely alternative agenda.
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3-Oct-2018 Scoop
NZ, Australia face pressure to exit RCEP negotiations
There are some suggestion that New Zealand, and perhaps Australia, would be politely invited to exit the RCEP negotiations in the interests of concluding them.
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2-Oct-2018 It’s Our Future
What an alternative & progressive trade strategy should look like
19 – 20 October 2018. Fale Pasifika, University Of Auckland.
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20-Sep-2018 América Retail
Colombia: Lecheros realizarán plantón por TLC con Nueva Zelanda
De “nefastas consecuencias para el campo colombiano” califican los productores de leche un posible acuerdo de Tratado de Libre Comercio entre Colombia y Nueva Zelanda que tendrá su última ronda entre el 22 y 28 de septiembre de este año.
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5-Sep-2018 UNI
RCEP talks may spill over to 2019, Govt to hold parleys with China, others: Prabhu
India will hold talks with Australia, New Zealand and China on Free-trade agreement in addition to Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)
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14-Aug-2018 Voxy
Select committee urged to stop the spread of ISDS under CPTPP
A range of labour, health and environmental organisations are calling for a clause to be inserted into the CPTPP Amendment Bill that would prevent future governments from extending investor-state dispute settlement to countries seeking to join the agreement.
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8-Aug-2018 Daily Blog
Trade for All is a lie
New Zealand Labour-led government’s ‘Trade for All agenda’ is somehow meant to re-engender confidence without addressing any issues.
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6-Aug-2018 European Commission
EU-New Zealand FTA: EU proposals (July 2018)
As released by the European Commission
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6-Aug-2018 Scoop
“Trade For All” consultation lacks credibility
“Trade For All” consultation lacks credibility while negotiations on old model continue.
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19-Jul-2018 NZ Herald
UK set to start domestic consultation on first free-trade deals, including with NZ
The British Government has authorised preparations to begin for free-trade negotiations with New Zealand, Australia and the United States and to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership
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19-Jul-2018 Scoop
Pacific Alliance trade talks to be advanced in Mexico
New Zealand to hold talks with his Pacific Alliance counterparts in Mexico to seek further progress on a free trade agreement with the four-nation grouping.
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19-Jul-2018 La Crónica del Quindio
TLC con Australia y Nueva Zelanda nos pondrá en aprietos; no podremos competir: Ganaderos
Jorge Ómar Tejada, director ejecutivo del Comité de Ganaderos del Quindío, aseveró que se envió una carta a la presidencia haciendo la solicitud de exclusión.
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17-Jul-2018 Stuff
First round of talks for EU-NZ free trade deal underway
Following an official launch in Wellington, the first formal round of negotiations for a deal between New Zealand and the European Union got underway in Brussels.
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29-Jun-2018 Scoop
CPTPP law in the House as Mexico first to ratify
A Bill bringing New Zealand’s ratification of the CPTPP a step closer had its first reading in Parliament today as Mexico becomes the first country to notify it has ratified the 11 member trade deal.
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21-Jun-2018 Scoop
“Trade for all” in the EU NZ FTA offers no new direction
The trade rules that generate inequalities, favour the wealthiest transnational corporations, threaten jobs, consume fossil fuels and destroy the environment will remain unchanged.
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21-Jun-2018 The Hindu BusinessLine
India in talks with China, Australia, New Zealand to crack mega trade deal
India is holding bilateral dialogues with China, Australia and New Zealand to get them to agree to less ambitious tariff cuts for sensitive products. The aim is to end the logjam in the negotiations for the mega regional trade bloc, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).
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19-Jun-2018 Stuff
Red meat quotas a likely sticking point when NZ-EU FTA talks get underway
Agricultural exports into Europe look set to be a hurdle facing New Zealand diplomats when negotiations for free trade agreements with the European Union and Great Britain get started.
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12-Jun-2018 Scoop
Economist warns free trade agreements can be “job killers”
Free trade agreements can be “job killing” in the poorer countries who sign up to such agreements, and exert a downward pressure on wages even in advanced countries, warns Nobel Prize winning economist.
