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Lessons for the Left from NAFTA Mark-II
9-Oct-2018 Daily Blog
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.
Converting resistance to TPPA into a new agenda for change
3-Oct-2018 Daily Blog
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.
NZ, Australia face pressure to exit RCEP negotiations
3-Oct-2018 Scoop
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.
What an alternative & progressive trade strategy should look like
2-Oct-2018 It’s Our Future
19 – 20 October 2018. Fale Pasifika, University Of Auckland.
RCEP talks may spill over to 2019, Govt to hold parleys with China, others: Prabhu
5-Sep-2018 UNI
India will hold talks with Australia, New Zealand and China on Free-trade agreement in addition to Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)
Select committee urged to stop the spread of ISDS under CPTPP
14-Aug-2018 Voxy
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.
Trade for All is a lie
8-Aug-2018 Daily Blog
New Zealand Labour-led government’s ‘Trade for All agenda’ is somehow meant to re-engender confidence without addressing any issues.
EU-New Zealand FTA: EU proposals (July 2018)
6-Aug-2018 European Commission
As released by the European Commission
“Trade For All” consultation lacks credibility
6-Aug-2018 Scoop
“Trade For All” consultation lacks credibility while negotiations on old model continue.
UK set to start domestic consultation on first free-trade deals, including with NZ
19-Jul-2018 NZ Herald
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
Pacific Alliance trade talks to be advanced in Mexico
19-Jul-2018 Scoop
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.
First round of talks for EU-NZ free trade deal underway
17-Jul-2018 Stuff
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.
CPTPP law in the House as Mexico first to ratify
29-Jun-2018 Scoop
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.
“Trade for all” in the EU NZ FTA offers no new direction
21-Jun-2018 Scoop
The trade rules that generate inequalities, favour the wealthiest transnational corporations, threaten jobs, consume fossil fuels and destroy the environment will remain unchanged.
India in talks with China, Australia, New Zealand to crack mega trade deal
21-Jun-2018 The Hindu BusinessLine
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).
Red meat quotas a likely sticking point when NZ-EU FTA talks get underway
19-Jun-2018 Stuff
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.
Economist warns free trade agreements can be “job killers”
12-Jun-2018 Scoop
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.
Trade deals with Australia and New Zealand could cause chaos for Irish agriculture
28-May-2018 AgriLand
This week’s confirmation that the European Union (EU) is to commence trade talks with Australia and New Zealand has bad news written all over it from the perspective of Irish agriculture.
Trade deal with European Union could raise a stink over rights to naming cheese
23-May-2018 NZ Herald
New Zealand dairy companies could lose the right to use terms such as Feta, Parmesan, Brie and Camembert if a free trade deal goes ahead with the European Union.
Specialty cheesemakers ’worse off’ in EU trade deal
23-May-2018 Radio NZ
An award-winning cheese producer says a trade deal with the European Union will hurt the specialty cheese industry.