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Top Japanese official has no interest in trade deal with just the US
23-Jul-2018 Bloomberg
Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga says US should return to TPP.
Singapore ratifies new trans-pacific trade deal
20-Jul-2018 Channel News Asia
Singapore ratified the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), becoming the third nation to do so after Mexico and Japan
UK set to start domestic consultation on first free-trade deals, including with NZ
19-Jul-2018 NZ Herald
The British Government has authorised preparations to begin for free-trade negotiations with New Zealand, Australia and the United States and to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership
TPP countries to start accession talks for new members in 2019
19-Jul-2018 The Mainichi
Thailand, Indonesia, Columbia, South Korea and Taiwan are seen as willing to join the revised TPP. Britain has also shown interest.
TPP chief negotiators to meet in Japan
16-Jul-2018 NHK
Chief negotiators from the 11 countries that signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement will hold talks in Japan
Lana Payne: Trading away the potential for stronger labour rights
11-Jul-2018 The Telegram
With all the talk of demanding labour rights under NAFTA that are progressive and enforceable, it begs the question: what happened to demanding those rights when negotiating the new Trans-Pacific trade deal?
Japan becomes second country after Mexico to ratify TPP-11 trade deal
6-Jul-2018 The Straits Times
Japan became the second country to ratify the revised Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal.
CPTPP law in the House as Mexico first to ratify
29-Jun-2018 Scoop
A Bill bringing New Zealand’s ratification of the CPTPP a step closer had its first reading in Parliament today as Mexico becomes the first country to notify it has ratified the 11 member trade deal.
Author Raj Patel on the oligarchy of food
29-Jun-2018 Street Roots
The economist says we can shake the yoke of corpocracies, reclaim our food supply and bring collective solutions to the table
Japan set to ratify revised TPP before hosting RCEP meeting
29-Jun-2018 The Straits Times
Japan is set to ratify the revised Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade deal today, two days before it hosts a meeting that seeks to make significant progress on another regional deal that is less ambitious but equally significant.
Japan to cooperate for Thailand joining TPP free trade talks
28-Jun-2018 Bangkok Post
The foreign ministers of Japan and Thailand have agreed to step up cooperation for Bangkok to join talks on participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade framework.
Taiwan hopes to join CPTPP as soon as possible: top negotiator
27-Jun-2018 Focus Taiwan
Taiwan is hoping to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) as soon as possible, Taiwan’s top negotiator said in a recent interview.
Rally protests trade agreement
21-Jun-2018 Green Left Weekly
More than 100 members of unions, aid and development organisations, health, environment and other groups rallied in Sydney outside the Parliament’s public hearing on the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership.
It’s time to stop giving more rights to global corporations
20-Jun-2018 Sydney Morning Herald
Despite this growing rejection of ISDS, the Australian government claims that ambiguous general “safeguards” in the TPP-11 will protect public interest laws.
American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore urges US to rejoin Trans-Pacific trade pact
19-Jun-2018 The Business Times
The American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore (AmCham Singapore) has called on the US to join the trade pact which replaced the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), from which the US withdrew in January 2017.
Colombia has made request to join Pacific trade pact: Mexico
18-Jun-2018 Reuters
Colombia has formally requested permission to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), Mexico’s Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo said.
Liberals’ corporate-friendly TPP trade deal will kill Canadian jobs, increase inequality
15-Jun-2018 Newswire
The TPP is first and foremost a corporate-rights deal for multinationals. It will worsen inequality, further erode Canada’s manufacturing and industrial base.
Activists sound alarm over trade deal
13-Jun-2018 The Nation
Groups say agreement will harm Thai agriculture and health, warn decision should be left to incoming elected government.
Tokyo approves bill in next step toward enactment of new Trans-Pacific Partnership
13-Jun-2018 The Japan Times
Japan’s bicameral legislature, The Diet has approved a bill on to ratify the 11-country Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Indonesia making preparations to join TPP
13-Jun-2018 Nikkei Asian Review
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.