bilaterals.org logo
bilaterals.org logo

PACER

Koya: Talks with PNG minister Pato fruitful
15-Aug-2017 Fiji Sun
The Minister for Industry, Trade, Tourism, Lands and Mineral Resources said the meeting involved discussions on the ‘way forward’ with the Melanesian Spearhead Group Trade Agreement.
PACER Plus countries prepare for trade deal ratification
22-Jun-2017 ICTSD
With the signing process now concluded, PACER Plus will take effect 60 days after eight negotiating parties complete their domestic processes and have notified the depositary accordingly.
PNG firmly out of Pacer-Plus
21-Jun-2017 PNG Industry News
Papua New Guinea is still realigning internal issues and is not ready to make commitments under Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations Plus (Pacer-Plus) an official says.
Vanuatu parliament unites in opposition to PACER Plus
15-Jun-2017 Radio NZ
The Vanuatu opposition has congratulated the government for its decision not to sign the PACER Plus trade agreement.
PACER-Plus trade deal signed in Tonga
14-Jun-2017 Radio NZ
A region-wide free trade agreement has been signed in Tonga, with some notable absences.
Joey Tau: Can the MSG bloc walk out on the PACER-Plus trade deal?
13-Jun-2017 Asia Pacific Report
PACER-Plus will have a serious impact on the ability for Solomon Islanders to determine for themselves their own development future.
Tonga’s PSA keen to delay signing Pacer Plus deal
13-Jun-2017 Radio NZ
The Tonga Public Service Association has called for a delay in the signing of the PACER Plus trade and development deal until the Pacific Islands Forum leaders’ summit in September.
PACER-Plus: Disappointment and lost opportunity
12-Jun-2017 Matangi Tonga
The PACER-Plus model of development is based on an increasingly questionable form of economics which naively imagines that national economies will adapt automatically to enhanced price signals from liberalised international markets from which ’distortions’ are removed.
Vanuatu sets PACER-Plus benchmark
12-Jun-2017 Fiji Times
The decision by Vanuatu not to sign PACER-Plus sets the benchmark for a how to progress on PACER-Plus ahead of the signing
Vanuatu not ready to sign PACER Plus
9-Jun-2017 Radio NZ
The Vanuatu government has announced it will not sign the PACER Plus trade and development deal in Tonga.
Call for more time to assess Pacific trade deal
6-Jun-2017 Radio NZ
There’s been a call for more time to be given to Pacific civil society organisations and the private sector to assess the proposed regional free trade deal known as PACER Plus.
Tuvalu to sign regional trade deal
1-Jun-2017 Radio NZ
Tuvalu’s cabinet has agreed to sign the PACER-Plus regional trade agreement following a two-day national consultation last week.
PACER-plus consolidated legal text
31-May-2017 Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, New Zealand
As released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of New Zealand
Pacific NGOs maintain opposition to PACER Plus
30-May-2017 Radio NZ
Dozens of civil society groups in the Pacific have reiterated their criticism of the PACER Plus trade deal, and said it is likely to fail the people of the Pacific.
PACER Plus signing on 14 June
23-May-2017 Matangi
The PACER Plus Trade Agreement will be signed by 14 Pacific Island countries including Australia and New Zealand on June 14 in Nuku’alofa, Tonga.
Aus, NZ trying to corner India in Oceania
9-May-2017 Sunday Guardian Live
One of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s most insightful, if low key, foreign policy initiatives was to work to deepen relations with more than a dozen island nations of Oceania.
New Pacific trade pact goes against the protectionist tide
5-May-2017 Nikkei
But 14-nation deal may be largely symbolic without Fiji and Papua New Guinea.
Guide to PACER-Plus
2-May-2017 Fiji Times
A new guide allows Pacific Islanders to better understand the impacts of the recently concluded and controversial regional Free Trade Agreement, known as PACER-Plus.
Fiji wants to renegotiate PACER Plus
27-Apr-2017 Radio NZ
Fiji’s trade minister Faiyaz Koya says Fiji will approach Australia after missing out on the conclusion of the PACER Plus talks.
Barry Coates: PACER Plus – how the Pacific Way is being undermined
24-Apr-2017 Asia Pacific Report
There were promises that the agreement would be for the benefit of the Pacific. But it has been shaped more by the advantages to Australia and New Zealand exporters than the aspirations of the Pacific’s people.