TPP
Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement or Trans-Pacific Partnership for short
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18-Jun-2018 Reuters
Colombia has made request to join Pacific trade pact: Mexico
Colombia has formally requested permission to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), Mexico’s Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo said.
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15-Jun-2018 Portafolio
‘Colombia solicitó ingreso formal a TPP’
Según el secretario de Economía de México, Colombia querría entrar a este organismo que establece mecanismos para eliminar aranceles.
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15-Jun-2018 Newswire
Liberals’ corporate-friendly TPP trade deal will kill Canadian jobs, increase inequality
The TPP is first and foremost a corporate-rights deal for multinationals. It will worsen inequality, further erode Canada’s manufacturing and industrial base.
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13-Jun-2018 The Nation
Activists sound alarm over trade deal
Groups say agreement will harm Thai agriculture and health, warn decision should be left to incoming elected government.
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13-Jun-2018 The Japan Times
Tokyo approves bill in next step toward enactment of new Trans-Pacific Partnership
Japan’s bicameral legislature, The Diet has approved a bill on to ratify the 11-country Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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13-Jun-2018 Nikkei Asian Review
Indonesia making preparations to join TPP
Indonesia is studying the revised Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement reached by 11 nations after the US exited, with a view to joining the trade pact, Jusuf Kalla, the country’s vice president, said on Tuesday.
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13-Jun-2018 Spatial Source
CPTPP jeopardises the future of open source software: OSIA
Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA) is calling upon the federal government to scrap the CPTPP over provisions that could decimate the Australian open source community.
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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.
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12-Jun-2018 Bloomberg
Mexico turns trade attention to Japan with Nafta talks at risk
Economy minister in Tokyo this week for conferences, meetings. Nafta uncertainty rising after Trump, Trudeau clashed.
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12-Jun-2018 Viet Nam News
Canada wants Pacific trade pact ratified fast amid Trump spat: minister
Canada wants to speed up the ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact to offset the adverse effects of the trade spat erupting with the United States.
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12-Jun-2018 Le Monde
Le Canada va hâter la ratification du partenariat transpacifique pour contrer Trump
Face au repli protectionniste des Etats-Unis, Ottawa compte sur cet accord pour ouvrir de nouveaux marchés aux entreprises canadiennes.
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12-Jun-2018 South China Morning Post
Malaysia’s PM Mahathir urges TPP ‘renegotiation’ during trip to Tokyo
Leader’s visit to Japan seen as a sign of Malaysia’s move away from China, which pumped billions of dollars into the previous administration.
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8-Jun-2018 ZDNet
Colombia looking to join new TPP
TPP may get back to a dozen signatories, with Colombia declaring its interest in the agreement.
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7-Jun-2018 Times Higher Education
How global trade deals could impact universities
Unions and universities worry that agreements could leave them vulnerable to for-profit competition and entrench privatisation.
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6-Jun-2018 The Edge Markets
Reassess Malaysia’s position in trade agreements — CAP
The Consumer Association of Penang (CAP) is urging the government to assess its position in regional trade agreements like the TPP and the RCEP.
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4-Jun-2018 The Star
Need to review trade policy and treaties
Trade deals cover many key issues besides trade and have huge implications for economic and social development, so they should also come under review by the new government.
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31-May-2018 Info Justice
The chilling effect: investor-state dispute settlement, graphic health warnings, the plain packaging of tobacco products, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) poses significant challenges in respect of tobacco control, public health, human rights, and sustainable development.
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30-May-2018 BNA
Canada positions itself to soon debut trans-pacific trade bill
The Canadian government could soon introduce a bill to implement the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), possibly as early as June 19.
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28-May-2018 Global Trade
Japan’s critical leadership role on free and fair trade
Japan should play its leadership role strategically in international trade, and when the United States comes back to the TPP, both Japan and the United States should help realize the FTAAP vision.
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25-May-2018 The Diplomat
TPP’s regulatory capitalism and China’s Belt and Road challenges
The revived TPP 11 operates as a significant alternative to China’s approach, embodied in the Belt and Road Initiative.
