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Don’t cry over dead trade agreements
14-Dec-2016 Live Mint
If we can manage our own economies well, new trade pacts will become largely redundant.
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, intellectual property protection and access to medicines
14-Dec-2016 SSRN
This paper identifies TRIPS-Plus provisions in leaked RCEP negotiating texts and examines their implications for low and middle-income countries.
RCEP to consolidate Asian integration
13-Dec-2016 Jakarta Post
The RCEP is part of the efforts of Asian countries to explore avenues of collaborative regional governance. It should be seen as the extension of an integrated ASEAN community
Regional trade meet should not pave way for monopoly in drugs: Doctors without Borders
12-Dec-2016 The Times of India
Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) and other health groups have reiterated concerns about harmful intellectual property provisions in the RCEP
Why did Japan’s Parliament ratify ’dead’ TPP agreement?
12-Dec-2016 The Business Times
A curious thing happened when the Japanese Parliament voted to ratify Japan’s participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) even though the agreement has been widely proclaimed to be "dead"
Diet approves TPP despite Trump’s stated opposition
9-Dec-2016 The Asahi Shimbun
Although seemingly dead due to opposition from U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement was approved by the Diet.
China-championed Asia trade pact gains traction in Jakarta talks
9-Dec-2016 Bloomberg Quint
Matters such as intellectual property rights, as well as trade in goods and services, remain unresolved. The next talks will be held in Japan in February.
Trade Minister Steven Ciobo rejects assertions that the Trans-Pacific Partnership has collapsed
8-Dec-2016 The Age
"We are only nine months into a 24-month process, we need to give the Americans time to consider the pros and cons of the TPP."
TPP may be dead – but its impact lingers
7-Dec-2016 IP Watch
Threats to affordable access to medicines continue unabated
Australia pursues trade agenda in Asia
7-Dec-2016 SBS
Australia Trade Minister is in Jakarta for talks over the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement
RCEP talks speed up amid TPP failure
7-Dec-2016 The Jakarta Post
Amid the collapse of the United States-backed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) pact, trade officials from 10 Southeast Asian countries and six key partners started on Tuesday talks on a rival deal with new urgency.
Scrapping TPP won’t make a lick of difference
6-Dec-2016 ABC
The problem with free trade deals is they rarely are about trade. In fact, trade usually is a side issue. And the TPP was a classic case in point.
Secret TiSA trade deal equally as dangerous as TPP and TTIP finds new report
2-Dec-2016 Friends of the Earth International
The current trade and investment system—including TTIP, TPP and TiSA—needs to be challenged and fundamentally transformed in order to achieve a more just and sustainable world.
Treaties committee endorses TPP trade pact
30-Nov-2016 SBS
The treaties committee has recommended Australia ratify the controversial regional trade deal, even though it might not go ahead.
Civil society open letter to governments in the 16 RCEP countries
29-Nov-2016
This is an urgent call by 316 civil society organisations from across the Asian and Pacific countries negotiating the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership to reject TPP rules in the RCEP
Japan caught in dilemma with TPP facing dead end, RCEP and FTAAP in focus
28-Nov-2016 Xinhua
The focus of the Asia-Pacific is believed to be shifting to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)
The new trade future in Asia Pacific – analysis
28-Nov-2016 Eurasia Review
While the dream of free trade was born in the prosperous West, it will be completed in the emerging East.
Indonesia proposes ‘ASEAN-Pacific axis’ alternative to TPP and Chinese initiative
28-Nov-2016 Asia Pacific Report
Indonesia has proposed the setting up of a new trade bloc that could counterbalance the dominance of the United States and China.
Trade not so much about tariffs anymore, says NZ Trade Minister Todd McClay
28-Nov-2016 Stuff
In essence, trade agreements are not about tariffs and goods anymore but about investment and services.
The TPP is dead. What happens next?
25-Nov-2016 Madhyam
If accomplished, RCEP would pave the way to the creation of the largest free trade bloc in the world