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Thousands sign open letter to PM Ardern on TPPA11
31-Oct-2017 Scoop
Nearly 6,000 people have signed an open letter to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern urging her to put people and planet first in the upcoming TPPA negotiations in Vietnam.
NZ to ban foreign buyers of existing homes
31-Oct-2017 Scoop
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced plans to effectively ban foreign buyers of existing residential property but says the prohibition doesn’t put New Zealand at odds with the slimmed down version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal.
The risks for ASEAN of new mega-agreements that promote the wrong model of e-commerce
30-Oct-2017 ERIA
Digital technology offers exciting new opportunities and advances for ASEAN member states, individually and as a region. The benefits have so far been captured by first movers, especially in the United States.
Top US trade official opposition to ISDS in NAFTA undermines case for ISDS in TPP-11
30-Oct-2017 AFTINET
US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said that the US wants to opt out of ISDS in NAFTA, because of the risk and costs of US governments being sued by foreign corporations, and despite corporate lobby groups pushing to retain ISDS.
Najib: Malaysia to consider FTA with US if TPPA falls through
30-Oct-2017 Free Malaysia Today
PM says the proposed solution is to have the TPPA model incorporated into a bilateral agreement similar to a FTA in order to facilitate discussions on trade and investment issues.
TPPA-11 (The zombie TPPA)
27-Oct-2017 It’s Our Future
Sign the ActionStation petition to tell Jacinda Ardern not to commit New Zealand to the TPPA-11.
Tight timeframe ahead of TPP negotiations
26-Oct-2017 Radio NZ
Crucial Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations next month are among the most pressing matters facing the incoming government.
Japan to host next round of TPP talks, New Zealand wants changes
24-Oct-2017 Reuters
Japan’s government will host the latest round of negotiations for the 11 nations remaining in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but reaching a final deal has been thrown into doubt by New Zealand’s change of government.
New Zealand’s Ardern wants to balance trade pact with housing pledge
23-Oct-2017 Bloomberg
Incoming leader Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand will still seek membership in the proposed Trans Pacific Partnership even as she strives to honor her election campaign pledge to clamp down on foreign property speculators.
Trade for the people
23-Oct-2017 IBON
"Trade for the People" briefly covers how the new FTAs, such as the TPP, the RCEP and the EPAs in Africa continue to threaten people’s rights.
New government’s TPPA problems start next week
20-Oct-2017 Scoop
The new government of Labour, New Zealand First and the Greens will have to move fast if they are going to influence the outcomes of trade and investment agreements being negotiated.
Unfair trade: US beef has a climate problem
19-Oct-2017 Mongabay
TPP, like other global trade treaties, fails to acknowledge climate change or include mechanisms to curb it.
Mexico says TPP countries seek consensus on market access at APEC meeting
18-Oct-2017 CNBC
The remaining countries of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) hope to agree on how to preserve the market access enshrined in the trade deal, Mexico’s economy minister said.
PH not joining TPP without US
16-Oct-2017 Manila Bulletin
Finance Secretary Carlos “Sonny” Dominguez stated that the Philippines is not joining the TPP, contradicting the position of Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez who renewed his interest of joining the TPP.
Malaysia eyes TPP-11, but on its terms
11-Oct-2017 AEC
Malaysia does not have a bilateral agreement with Canada, so the TPP-11 could serve a way towards that goal. Malaysia is also actively exploring its trade options with Latin America.
The environment in Canadian trade agreements
10-Oct-2017 Policy Options
Since NAFTA, Canada and the US have included the largest number, worldwide, of environmental clauses in their trade agreements.
New free trade agreements: normalising brutal transnational supply chains
6-Oct-2017 GRAIN
Transnational supply chains have been an expanding economic actor since transnational corporations began outsourcing manufacturing to places where extremely low wages, low or non-existing labour safety standards and even slave labour prevailed or were tolerated.
Japanese eager for Trans-Pacific Partnership with all eyes, including theirs, on NAFTA
4-Oct-2017 National Post
“All the countries, including Japanese, are very closely following the negotiation,” outgoing Japanese ambassador Kenjiro Monji said. “Because if we have to deal with United States, we can learn from this experience. A lot.”
TPPA: The walking dead free trade agreement
2-Oct-2017 People Over Profit
The struggle against TPPA is thus not yet over, but needs to be intensified as zombie TPPA-minus US proves to be worse than its predecessor.
Canada pushes back against US copyright demands in NAFTA
26-Sep-2017 Electronic Frontier Foundation
The United States is using the TPP as a template for the draft IP chapter that it is presenting to its negotiating partners in this round. Canada, however, isn’t down with that.