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Free trade deal in Asia Pacific could hit labor, environment, public health
1-Feb-2012 FSRN
This week activists in Southern California are drawing attention to what they call secret negotiations taking place for a free trade deal shaping up in the Asia Pacific region.
Obama’s Free Trade Agreement: Backdoor deal with corporate America?
31-Jan-2012 LA Progressive
This week, in a $500 a night Beverly Hills Hotel, the Obama administration’s U.S. Trade Representative is gathering in secret with negotiators from around the world for a session that could create a whole new set of international trade rules: rules that favor the wealthy 1% of corporate interests.
Selling the farm(er): What the Trans-Pacific Partnership means for Canada’s dairy farmers
28-Jan-2012
An "elephant in the room" is an English metaphor for an obvious truth that’s ignored or an obvious problem or risk that no one wants to discuss. For Canada’s dairy farmers, the elephant in the milking parlour is the Trans Pacific Partnership.
Taiwan’s Ma seeks to join Trans-Pacific Partnership
25-Jan-2012 Asia Sentinel
US President Barack Obama’s promotion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership multilateral free trade agreement, put forward in November at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Hawaii, is seen as a strategic tool to drive a wedge between the US and its Asia-Pacific friends on one side and China on the other.
Investment developments in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
12-Jan-2012 ITN
What are the likely implications of the TPPA for investment law? The draft investment chapter is largely completed. It generally follows the 2004 US model BIT, with a few significant square brackets, writes Jane Kelsey.
Deep divide over Trans-Pacific Partnership
9-Jan-2012 New Straits Times
For Japan, TPP will be almost a bilateral free trade agreement with the US.
Jagdish Bhagwati: America’s threat to trans-Pacific trade
3-Jan-2012 Project Syndicate
The TPP is a testament to the ability of US industrial lobbies, Congress, and presidents to obfuscate public policy.
Harper government on a free-trade frenzy
28-Dec-2011 Montreal Gazette
Deals could have profound effects on jobs, privacy, costs, food and health care
STOP TPPA negotiations
15-Dec-2011
Sign on to reach the goal of 25,000 signatures before 26 December 2011
Pacific trade negotiators urged to create a path for Japan role
15-Dec-2011 Bloomberg
Negotiators from nine Pacific nations seeking a trade agreement should create a path for countries including Japan to join eventually, most likely after an initial accord is reached, Representative Kevin Brady said.
Legal scholars release critical analysis of US proposals for IP and pharmaceutical chapters of the TPP
9-Dec-2011
The scholars’ analysis concludes that the "US proposals, if adopted, would upset the current international framework balancing the minimum standards for exclusive rights for media and technology owners, on the one hand, and the access rights of the public, competitors, innovators and creators, on the other."
Will the US push for non-labelling of GMOs in trade pact?
9-Dec-2011 TWN
Commentators are worried that the US may be pressuring countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) - an Asia-Pacific-wide free trade pact - to abolish the labelling of GM foods, which it regards as a trade barrier.
Trans-Pacific Trade Talks in Malaysia Underscore Secrecy
8-Dec-2011
The Obama administration’s Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks in Malaysia this week underscore the point that critics of this potential trade deal have been making for months: Despite Obama’s pledges to negotiate a high-standard deal and do so transparently, the negotiations continue to take place in extreme secrecy.
Protests greet trans-Pacific free trade talks
6-Dec-2011
Protests greeted the first day of preliminary round talks among officials from nine countries working toward a Pacific free trade pact Monday.
Reject Trans-Pacific partnership talks
6-Dec-2011
Malaysia joined the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations – a free trade agreement (FTA) involving the United States – in October 2010. The country’s previous attempt in negotiating an FTA with the US stalled when talks became deadlocked over 58 contentious issues.
TPP – new playing field with great opportunities and big pressure
6-Dec-2011
When commenting about TPP, experts all agree that this is for first time Vietnam joins the negotiations for multilateral FTA (free trade agreement) with such a fast pace, broad scope of issues to be touched, and a high level of commitment and complexity.
Malaysian anti-free trade activists protest FTA deals with the US
6-Dec-2011 Press TV
Anti free-trade activists in Kuala Lumpur protested outside the venue where American representatives and Malaysian ministers met to discuss further on free trade agreements between the two nations.
Zenroren protests against Prime Minister Noda’s commitment to join TPP negotiations
29-Nov-2011
Today (November 11), Prime Minister NODA Yoshihiko expressed his willingness for Japan to participate in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations that would lead Japanese society to ruin. It is very clear that the TPP represents the U.S. intention to impose its trade rules on Japan and that it would benefit only Japanese and U.S. large exporters while forcing the majority of the people to endure the unbearable hardships.
TPPA framework shows leaders only listening to business
29-Nov-2011
The leaders’ "framework" of where they consider the Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) should head unfortunately shows they have been listening only to the concerns of business, and shown little concern to the voices of unions and other organisations says CTU Economist Bill Rosenberg.
New Zealand to Canada: get rid of poultry and dairy quotas
28-Nov-2011
New Zealand’s trade minister has some strong advice for Canada if it wants to enter an emerging Pacific trade group: eliminate tariffs by ditching poultry and dairy quotas.