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Preferring RCEP to TPP? S. Korean government putting RCEP before TPP
15-Nov-2017 Business Korea
The South Korean government is showing signs of putting the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership before the Trans-Pacific Partnership in free trade agreement strategy management.
Labour’s TPPA-11 spin omits inconvenient details
13-Nov-2017 Scoop
"[New Zealand’s] new government has begun to spin its achievements, while omitting some inconvenient details", says law professor Jane Kelsey.
How Canada allied with Mexico to fend off TPP pressure from Japan, Australia
13-Nov-2017 The Globe and Mail
From the outside, it looked like yet another bilateral meeting between Justin Trudeau and his continental ally, Enrique Pena Nieto, on the sidelines of yet another leaders’ summit.
CSOs take a stand against corporate agenda at ASEAN People’s Forum 2017
13-Nov-2017 APWLD
Civil society urges the ASEAN Member States to take people-centred approach.
CPTPP or TPP11 for trade nerds
13-Nov-2017 Asian Trade Centre
So what happened and what is new?
Trans-Pacific trade deal advances without United States
11-Nov-2017 Reuters
Countries in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal have agreed on the core elements to move ahead without the United States, after last-minute resistance from Canada raised new doubts about its survival.
Women’s rights groups in Asia Pacific express relief on collapse of TPP
10-Nov-2017 APWLD
Women’s Rights Organisations expressed support for Canada’s reluctance to finalise the TPP11 negotiations at the APEC meeting today calling it a deal that would “deepen inequality” and “trade people for profit”
No deal: How the TPP talks collapsed
10-Nov-2017 NZ Herald
The future of TPP has been thrown into doubt after Canada’s sudden refusal to attend the final leaders’ meeting in Danang, Vietnam, which was then cancelled.
11 nations agree in principle on TPP Pacific trade deal
9-Nov-2017 Nikkei
After months of negotiation, the remaining 11 members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal have reached agreement on the trade pact in principle on the ministerial level.
Time for costly medicine monopolies to go from TPP trade talks
9-Nov-2017 The Conversation
The latest plan to get the controversial trade deal up and running involves freezing some of its controversial rules, including rules for biologic drugs, an expensive class of medicines often used to treat conditions such as cancer and rheumatoid arthritis.
Suspending parts of TPP may save pact without renegotiation: Malaysia
8-Nov-2017 Japan Times
A blockbuster Pacific trade pact thrown into doubt by Donald Trump could be salvaged by suspending parts of the deal in order to get the 11 remaining nations to sign on.
Quick signoff on TPP trade deal far from sure at Asia-Pacific meeting
8-Nov-2017 Reuters
Continuing disagreements over the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal mean 11 remaining members may not be ready to give it a wholehearted go-ahead at a summit this week, officials said.
GDP requirement may be dropped in TPP
6-Nov-2017 Japan News
Japan, Australia and nine other countries plan to relax the conditions required to bring the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement into force.
China vigilant about revival of TPP
6-Nov-2017 Japan News
China is becoming increasingly wary about negotiations over the 11-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement, which includes Japan but not the United States following the latter’s withdrawal.
NZ ambassadors pushing for ISDS change
3-Nov-2017 Newsroom
The Government is enlisting its ambassadors in a last-minute bid to win changes to the TPP’s controversial investment clauses, Trade and Export Growth Minister David Parker says.
New paper explains TPP’s impact on access to medicines in member countries
2-Nov-2017 AFTINET
As the TPP-11 meet to attempt to revive the TPP without the US, the research findings show how damaging the original medicine proposals would be.
’TPP 11’ negotiators make headway before crucial summit next week
2-Nov-2017 Nikkei
’Consensus’ reached on freezing certain provisions, but obstacles remain.
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.