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Can Chile curb the TPP?
17-Feb-2014 FPIF
With the US Congress deadlocked over trade, Chile’s progressive new government may be able to win new protections and increase transparency in the TPP talks, write Sarah Anderson and Imara Salas
Night anti-TPPA protest for M’sians in the dark
14-Feb-2014 Free Malaysia Today
Candles were lit and banners were hung in front of the International Trade and Industry Ministry last night as a form of protest against the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.
Public forum on anti-people “trade” deal
13-Feb-2014 CPA
As the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement hurtles towards an indecently fast and secret finalisation between the states of 12 countries and a number of large transnational corporations, concerned citizens around the globe have been organising a resistance to this anti-democratic and anti-people “free trade” agreement.
65,000 protest TPP in Mexico, see repeat of NAFTA mistakes
5-Feb-2014 Popular Resistance
Farmers, union, environmental and women’s activists gathered in Mexico City last week to take stock of the lessons from NAFTA and plan strategies to confront the next big threat: the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP).
New Zealand gov’t TPP forecast "doubtful": review
5-Feb-2014 Shanghai Daily
Government claims that New Zealand will see an economic gain of 4.5 billion US dollars from the proposed 12-nation Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal are "doubtful," according to an academic review released Wednesday.
TPP would ’upgrade’ US trade pacts, says US Commerce chief
5-Feb-2014 WSJ
The TPP is designed "to create a high-standard global trade agreement that addresses a bunch of issues that have not been addressed before in our trade agreements," US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker said, adding, "And frankly, if we don’t do it, someone else is going to set the standard."
Is the TPP dead?
5-Feb-2014 Acronym TV
An interview with Kevin Zeese, organizer with Flush the TPP and Popular Resistance.
PH: Businessmen mixed on country’s TPP bid
3-Feb-2014 Business World
"The Philippines should not just enter into a deal out of fear of being left out," Alfredo M. Yao, president of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, says.
Not a hacker or whistleblower? Here’s how you can still liberate secret documents
3-Feb-2014 Waging Nonviolence
When there are documents that the public has a right to know about, we have a right to go take them, writes Daniel Hunter
John Kinsman: Why we should oppose the Trans Pacific Partnership
31-Jan-2014 PR Watch
John Kinsman, the author of this op-ed first published in The Capital Times in 2012, passed away on January 20, 2014. He was a leader of the global food sovereignty movement who many of us knew.
Protests across North America aim to block ’NAFTA on steroids’
30-Jan-2014 Labor Notes
Philippines launches last-minute bid to join new Asia-Pacific FTA
29-Jan-2014
Officials of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) will hold talks with their US counterparts within the next two months in a last-minute bid to join discussions for a free-trade area (FTA) in the Asia-Pacific region.
Japan, US agree to continue cooperation for sealing TPP
27-Jan-2014 Kyodo
Japan and the US have agreed to continue to work for an early conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations, the Japanese trade minister said after meeting Saturday with the US trade chief on the fringes of the economic forum in Davos, Switzerland
US sees hurdles in China joining pacific trade pact
24-Jan-2014 Reuters
Washington wants progress on an investment treaty with Beijing before it considers expanding an eventual Pacific-region trade pact to include China, a top US official said on Thursday.
Pacific trade partners in end-game of trade talks: US official
23-Jan-2014 Reuters
Pacific Rim trading partners are working to resolve the last thorny issues in sealing an ambitious free trade pact and are likely to have further high-level talks next month, a senior US trade official said on Wednesday.
US trade debate prompts fears of delay in talks
20-Jan-2014 FT
In an interview with the Financial Times, Mexico’s economy minister said governments in the TPP talks were unlikely to offer any significant concessions until they were sure Mr Obama had fast-track authority. A senior EU official said officials in Brussels were bracing for a TPA debate that could last through this year and inevitably affect TTIP negotiations.
Taiwan should learn from South Korea’s TPP strategy
20-Jan-2014 Want China TImes
Taiwan’s president, Ma Ying-jeou, has recently turned aggressive in seeking to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks and could learn from Korea’s strategy.
Liberalization key to Taiwan’s TPP bid: AmCham
16-Jan-2014
The American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Taipei urged Taiwan Thursday to speed up its efforts to liberalize its business environment to help its bid to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Pacific trade talks fall short on environmental protection: groups
16-Jan-2014 Reuters
Documents released by the whistle-blowing group WikiLeaks show countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) did not plan to sanction trading partners who break environmental promises — an issue that has caused a rift between the United States and others in the bloc and is an obstacle to finalizing the deal.
Jan 31: Inter-continental day of action vs TPP & corporate globalization
16-Jan-2014 Council of Canadians
This is a call to action for communities throughout Mexico, Canada and the United States to join together on January 31, 2014, and say "ENOUGH!" to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, and other corporate "trade" deals. Solidarity actions elsewhere throughout the globe are welcome.