TPP
Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement or Trans-Pacific Partnership for short
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20-Aug-2018 AFTINET
Tell federal MPs and Senators: vote NO to TPP-11
The TPP-11 implementing legislation is now being reviewed by a Joint Parliamentary Committee on which the government has a majority.
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18-Aug-2018 Business Korea
South Korea decides to join CPTPP
The South Korean government has decided to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). It is now mulling over when to sign it.
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17-Aug-2018 Free Malaysia Today
CPTPP nothing but a rebranding exercise
There is nothing progressive about the CPTPP except its name.
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17-Aug-2018 Parker City News
Beef industry wants trade agreements like TPP, not tariffs, as meat sits in storage
National Cattlemen’s Beef Association would much prefer the use of trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership and benefit from having rules-based, science-based trade from those free trade agreements.
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17-Aug-2018 NHK
Japan asks Colombia to join TPP
Japan’s foreign minister has met his new Colombian counterpart and asked the South American country to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement.
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16-Aug-2018 Diplomatic Courier
Losing the Pacific: The futility of re-joining TPP
Amid rising tensions in the US-China bilateral relationship and increasing fears of a now-realized trade war, President Donald Trump announced that he would consider rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
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16-Aug-2018 Reuters
Japan and Peru agree to seek early implementation of TPP
Japan has already completed its domestic procedures to ratify the pact and Peru is in the midst of its own ratification process.
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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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13-Aug-2018 Reuters
Japan, US to meet again on trade in September: Japan economy minister
Motegi and Lighthizer exchanged views on individual trade areas but nothing has been decided.
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13-Aug-2018 The Star
Malaysia urged to withdraw gracefully from bad trade deal
With negligible real trade gains from the original TPP, the US withdrawal has made benefits from the regional agreement even more trivial.
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10-Aug-2018 The Mainichi
Japan sticks to TPP, US seeks bilateral deal in 1st trade talks
Motegi told Lighthizer that Japan believes the TPP — an 11-member regional trade pact from which the United States withdrew last year — is the best trade deal for the two countries.
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9-Aug-2018 Reuters
No easy answers as Japan, US head for new round of trade talks
Japan will try to avert steep tariffs on its car exports and fend off US demands for a bilateral free trade agreement at talks in Washington, but a quick fix for the trade imbalance between the two countries appears elusive.
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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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8-Aug-2018 International Affairs
Trade negotiations: Geo-economics and geopolitics
Trade negotiations have been increasingly used as a political tool.
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1-Aug-2018 TJA
Mexico’s historic election: A labor perspective
The recent election in Mexico is a referendum on the global reaction to the neoliberal assaults accompanying trade deals like NAFTA and TPP. Listen to this webinar with Manuel Perez-Rocha and Héctor de la Cueva
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30-Jul-2018 UTIA
Trade agreement with Japan is crucial for US beef industry
Research from the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture indicates that a trade agreement with Japan is crucial for the US beef industry
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30-Jul-2018 AFTINET
Community groups say no to the TPP-11 at Senate inquiry
“AFTINET will present evidence today to a Senate inquiry that the TPP-11 increases corporate rights at the expense of people’s rights and the environment and should not be implemented,” AFTINET Convener Dr Patricia Ranald said today.
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25-Jul-2018 Bangkok Post
Public hearings on CPTPP to run nationwide from August
Public hearings will be held in all regions throughout Thailand to gather feedback from all stakeholders on the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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23-Jul-2018 El Mostrador
TLC con la Unión Europea: Un peligro más allá del TPP
Aunque creíamos que con el TPP se había tocado fondo en cuanto a restringir el derecho a la salud de los chilenos, nos hemos sorprendido al conocer los mecanismos que incorpora la actualización del TLC con la Unión Europea y cuya propuesta ya está publicada en el sitio web de la comunidad.
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23-Jul-2018 Bloomberg
Top Japanese official has no interest in trade deal with just the US
Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga says US should return to TPP.
