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New Zealand: Agreements with five countries exclude compulsory investor-state dispute settlement processes
28-Mar-2018 Library of Congress
On March 9, 2018, the New Zealand Minister for Trade and Export Growth, David Parker, announced that the government has signed “side letters” with five other countries that are also party to the TPP11 that exclude compulsory investor-state dispute settlement.
TPP on table for UK after Brexit, trade chief Fox says
23-Mar-2018 Nikkei
Britain plans to pursue free trade pacts during transition period
Left for dead, a mega trade pact rises from the ashes
20-Mar-2018 The Progressive
There is still a chance that the new TPP will not take effect. For that to happen, the agreement must be by six of the eleven signatories.
Australia hopes Indonesia will join TPP-11
19-Mar-2018 Jakarta Post
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has expressed hope that Indonesia will one day join the revamped Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), popularly known as TPP-11.
South Korea considers joining revamped Pacific trade deal CPTPP
13-Mar-2018 The Straits Times
South Korea needs to move faster to join a Pacific trade deal signed by 11 regional nations last week without the presence of the United States says experts.
TPP - Trans-Pacific Partnership final text (2015, updated Nov 2017, updated Mar 2018)
9-Mar-2018 New Zealand Foreign Affairs and Trade
Asia-Pacific trade deal signed by 11 nations
9-Mar-2018 BBC
Eleven Asia-Pacific countries have signed the trade pact formerly known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Activists cement their feet in concrete to protest CPTPP signing
8-Mar-2018 Newshub
A last-ditch effort to stop the CPTPP has seen protesters cement themselves in concrete as well as dumping pillows and soft toys outside MP’s offices.
Resist the onslaught of neo liberal attacks under CPTPP
8-Mar-2018 People over Profit
Peoples movements, especially women, are enraged that the revived and rebranded CPTPP (Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership), an agreement set to trample on people’s rights, will be signed today, March 8, the very same day that is historically dedicated to honor the struggle of working class women against injustice and capitalist exploitation, and for the advancement of their rights.
Japanese envoy says signing of new TPP sends message to China on trade rules
7-Mar-2018 National Post
As Canada, Japan and nine other countries prepare to sign the rebooted Trans-Pacific Partnership this week in Chile, some see it as a way to set the stage for closer relations with China.
The post-TPP future of digital trade in Asia
6-Mar-2018 Electronic Frontier Foundation
On March 8, trade representatives from eleven Pacific rim countries including Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Australia are expected to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership, now known as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). The agreement has been slimmed down both in its content—22 items in the text have been suspended, including the bulk of the intellectual property chapter—and also in its membership, with the exclusion of the United States which had been the driver of those suspended provisions.
Japan approves signing of TPP free trade pact without US
6-Mar-2018 The Mainichi
The Japanese government on Tuesday approved the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact without the United States. Ministers from 11 participating countries are scheduled to gather in Chile on Thursday to sign the deal, paving the way for it to take effect in early 2019. Japan’s TPP minister Toshimitsu Motegi is expected to attend the signing ceremony.
Nationwide action against the TPPA
5-Mar-2018 Scoop
It’s Our Future is hosting events throughout New Zealand in opposition to the signing of the TPPA.
In America’s absence, Japan takes the lead on free trade
2-Mar-2018 East Asia Forum
The Japanese government is still hoping for a multilateral Asia Pacific order that includes the United States. Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso confided to US Vice President Mike Pence in early February that Japan encourages a US return to the TPP.
Anti-TPPA protesters lock themselves to railway track in Christchurch video
1-Mar-2018 Stuff
The threat of arrest has driven out six protesters who locked themselves to Christchurch train tracks to show their disapproval of the new TPP.
Eleven Pacific nations move on trade pact with data transfer provisions…without US
28-Feb-2018 BNA
The 11 countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP are retaining all of the digital trade and electronic commerce provisions from the original agreement.
Thailand weighs benefits of joining trade pact Trump ditched
28-Feb-2018 Bloomberg
Current 11-nation trade agreement set to be signed next month. Donald Trump says U.S. re-entering trade deal a ‘possibility’.
Cargill executive stresses importance of NAFTA, TPP to US agriculture
27-Feb-2018 World Grain
The world is fed on trade and the United States must secure its place at the table with fair and sound trade policies, most notably NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), said a Cargill executive.
The ‘new’ TPP and our shrinking democracy
26-Feb-2018 Gisborne Herald
Profit is king. People are the pawns, and the Government will seem to be in favour of supra-national conglomerates if it signs this “new” TPP inclusive of the ISDS.
Washington wheat growers warn Trump TPP withdrawal could prove catastrophic
23-Feb-2018 Digital Journal
The wheat growers’ leadership and staff continue to stress the importance of maintaining and strengthening free trade agreements, such as TPP, NAFTA and the US-Korea Free Trade Agreement.