TPP
Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement or Trans-Pacific Partnership for short
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27-Jan-2010 Andina
Peru to start negotiations to join the P4 trade agreement in March 2010
In March, Peru will start negotiations to join the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPPA), previously known as P4, announced Peru Deputy Trade Minister, Eduardo Ferreyros.
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15-Jan-2010 Scoop
It’s not OK: protest march against Hillary Clinton
Clinton arrives in New Zealand this week pushing her corporate globalisation agenda. She wants a Pacific Free Trade Agreement and closer military ties between the US and New Zealand.
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13-Jan-2010 Asia Times
US revives Asia trade agenda
A US commitment to the P4 through a wider trade pact would indirectly inject new life into the fading Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), which veered off course into security issues during the George W Bush administration and which is now struggling to achieve its market-liberalizing goals set out in Bogor, Indonesia, in 1994.
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21-Dec-2009 Bernama
Washington awaits KL’s decision on TPP
The United States is still awaiting Malaysia’s decision on whether to join the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiations.
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16-Dec-2009 People’s Daily
Etats-Unis: Ron Kirk notifie au Congrès les pourparlers commerciaux Asie-Pacifique
L’administration du président Obama a notifié lundi au Congrès que le président Barack Obama avait l’intention d’aborder les négociations d’un accord commercial Asie-Pacifique avec le Vietnam, la Nouvelle-Zélande, Singapour et quatres autres pays.
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15-Dec-2009 Bloomberg
US wants Japan, Malaysia, South Korea to join talks
The US wants Japan, Malaysia and South Korea to join negotiations for a regional free-trade agreement in Asia, Trade Representative Ron Kirk said.
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15-Dec-2009 Bloomberg
Obama tells Congress US will pursue Asia trade
“TPP is about re-establishing the role of the US in the Asian region,” Calman Cohen, president of the Washington-based Emergency Committee for American Trade, told reporters Dec. 11. “If they get it right, it can be a real shot in the arm.”
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15-Dec-2009 TVNZ
US-NZ trade talks expected to start in March
US trade officials have formally notified the US Congress of President Barack Obama’s intention to negotiate a regional free trade deal with Vietnam, New Zealand, Singapore, Chile and three other countries in the Asia Pacific area.
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27-Nov-2009 Bloomberg
US asks Japan to join Pacific-rim trade talks, Nikkei ays
The US government wants Japan to join talks for a proposed free trade agreement involving Pacific Rim countries, Nikkei English News said. Australia, Vietnam, Peru, Malaysia, Singapore, Chile, New Zealand and Brunei have said they will enter the negotiations.
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16-Nov-2009
Taiwan hopes to join second phase of P4 talks
Taiwan looks forward to being included in the second phase of the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (P4) talks, a senior official said Sunday.
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16-Nov-2009
US free trade agreement ’brilliant’ for NZ - Key
The United States’ agreement to participate in negotiations on a Asia-Pacific regional free trade agreement (FTA) should see "brilliant" economic growth for New Zealand, says Prime Minister John Key.
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15-Nov-2009
Free trade deal may be in place in two years says PM
Prime Minister John Key says the new Trans-Pacific Trade Treaty, which effectively gives New Zealand a free trade agreement with the United States, could be in place in two years.
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11-Nov-2009
Timing of free trade deal uncertain - Groser
Comments at the APEC meetings in Singapore show the Obama administration in the United States supports an eight-country free trade deal which would include New Zealand, says Trade Minister Tim Groser.
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23-Oct-2009 Reuters
Senators urge Obama on Asia-Pacific trade deal
They urged him to complete the Transpacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPP) begun by the administration of former President George W. Bush in 2008.
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2-Oct-2009 Univision.com
Presidente de Vietnam visita Chile para estrechar lazos económicos
Ambos países manifestaron el miércoles la intención de fortalecer lazos económicos a través del ingreso de la nación asiática al acuerdo "P4" y la firma de un TLC actualmente en negociación.
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3-Sep-2009 Andina
Países del P4 definirán el 14 de setiembre lineamientos para ampliación de acuerdo económico
Los jefes negociadores del Acuerdo Trasnpacífico de Asociación Económica Estratégica (P4) tendrán su primera reunión el 14 y 15 de setiembre en la ciudad de San Francisco.
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26-May-2009 Scoop
Kiwis say no to free trade agreement with US
Two hoary old myths are peddled as a means to get NZ out of its particular corner of the global economic crisis — that the economy needs to be opened up even more to foreign investors, by means of liberalising, yet again, the Overseas Investment Act; and that a Free Trade Agreement with the US is the Holy Grail of the numerous trade deals that the Government is currently pursuing. The Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) says “no” to both and we are not alone.
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8-May-2009 BIO
BIO position on Trans-Pacific Partnership FTA
Position paper of the US-based Biotechnology Industry Organisation on the US negotiation of a Trans-Pacific Partnership FTA with Singapore, Chile, Brunei, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand and Peru
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15-Apr-2009 BusinessWorld
US firms urge Washington to cultivate Asia-Pacific links
The Asia-Pacific Council of American Chambers is urging the Obama administration, while AmCham Philippines is lobbying the Macapagal Arroyo government, to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade area
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17-Mar-2009 NZ Herald
Jane Kelsey: Free trade deal may not make sense in these hard times
The careful stage management of announcements on free trade agreements is not new. But the US decision to defer negotations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership should encourage us to look beyond the simplistic assumptions that the more free trade agreements we sign, the better off we will be, based mainly on some fanciful modelling of the gains to agricultural exporters.
