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Defending Pacific Ways of Life: A Social Impact Assessment of PACER-Plus
21-Jun-2016 PANG
Defending Pacific ways of life: A Peoples Social Impact Assessment of PACER-Plus, was commissioned by the Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) to provide Pacific governments, negotiators, parliamentarians, civil society actors, customary landowners and the private sector with an alternative assessment to the impacts that PACER-Plus will have on the region.
Report condemns PACER Plus process
14-Jun-2016 Radio NZ
A new report says Pacific Island countries should walk away from the proposed PACER Plus free trade agreement, suggesting it puts Australia and New Zealand’s interests ahead of the Pacific.
PNG attacks Australia at Pacific free trade talks
2-Mar-2016 SBS
The signing of a Pacific free trade deal in June has been thrown into doubt with the largest island nation Papua New Guinea saying it favours Australia and will damage local industries.
The free trade theory versus the ...
22-Dec-2015 Fiji Times
PACER-Plus is shaping up as an agreement that won’t fit into the Pacific reality, will have weak protections for Pacific businesses and undermines the ability of governments to enact policies to support and nurture vital Pacific industries.
PACER-Plus renders weak protections for Pacific businesses
8-Dec-2015 Matangi Tonga
PACER-Plus is shaping up as an agreement that won’t fit into the Pacific reality, will have weak protections for Pacific businesses and undermines the ability of governments to enact policies to support and nurture vital Pacific industries.
PACER Plus bad for business
7-Dec-2015 PANG
New brief says Regional trade agreement bad for business.
China elbowing US out of Pacific tuna trade
21-Sep-2015 Nikkei Asian Review
A political battle is brewing in the Pacific over tuna as rising competition from Chinese vessels sours long-standing fishing arrangements between the US and Pacific island nations.
Pacific leaders want EPA negotiations to resume
20-Sep-2015
Explore all options is the instructions Pacific leaders have told officials who are negotiating an economic partnership agreement with the European Union.
Peru moves forward with trade agreements agenda
20-Aug-2015 Andina
Peru is making progress in implementing the agenda of new trade agreements
Pacific Ministers call for EU’s commitment to the EPA
20-Jul-2015 Pacific Forum
The Ministers highlighted that the interim EPA in its current form is not the preferable option for most parties as it has no development benefits
Joint ACP-EU meeting ends
18-Jun-2015 Fiji Times
The ACP Parliamentary Assembly called for a joint Pacific European Commission Ministerial meeting to address the remaining contentious issues and to work constructively to conclude a development friendly comprehensive EPA by December 31, 2015.
ACP calls EU’s EPA deferral unacceptable
16-Jun-2015 Radio New Zealand
The organisation of African, Carribean and Pacific countries says the European Union’s decision to defer negotiations for an Economic Partnership Agreement with the Pacific states is unacceptable.
Pacific Civil Society Swings Out Against Free Trade Agreement
4-Jun-2015
Fourteen Pacific Island Forum countries are currently locked in negotiations with their two largest economic neighbours, Australia and New Zealand, to forge a new regional free trade agreement called ‘PACER Plus’, which supporters believe will boost economic growth in the region.
EU committment to Pacific trade despite EPA stall
25-May-2015 Radio New Zealand
The European Union’s ambassador to the Pacific says the EU is still committed to trade relations with the Pacific, despite stalled negotiations for an Economic Partnership Agreement.
Pacific: EU proposes to stop EPA negotiations for 3 years
12-May-2015 Fiji Broadcasting Corporation
The European Union have proposed a 3 year pause in negotiations on the Economic Partnership Agreement, according to Fiji media.
EPA is no more
17-Oct-2013 PANG
In a surprise move this week, the European Union has moved to suspend negotiations for a new economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the islands of the Pacific, ISLANDS BUSINESS has been told.
EU reported to have called off Pacific negotiations on EPA
17-Oct-2013 Radio New Zealand International
The Solomon Islands government says the European Union has suspended negotiations on the Economic Partnership Agreement between 14 Pacific Island Countries and the EU - 9 years after its EPA was launched in September, 2004.
US Pacific Island Country trade and development agreement being explored
6-Sep-2013 CTA
In July 2013, Pacific Island Country Trade Ministers called on the Pacific Forum Secretariat to give priority to trade and economic cooperation discussions with the United States.
Why ’free trade’ hits Pacific people (PMC)
1-Sep-2013 AUT
For Gary Juffa — the Governor of Papua New Guinea’s Oro province and one of the region’s most outspoken critics of free trade — neoliberalism is a hard pill to swallow.
Europe hits back in war of words with the Pacific over trade
18-Jun-2013 Radio Australia
Plans for a comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement are in jeopardy after the Pacific Island nations accused Europe of failing to respond to their requests and threatened to pull-out if Europe is unable to meet their deadline of the end of this year.