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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
Why Trump is right, and wrong, about killing off the TPP
25-Nov-2016 The Conversation
Trump tells a half truth about why the TPP is a bad deal
Embedding human rights into corporate tax planning
25-Nov-2016 Madhyam
The exploitation of loopholes has become the favorite play of an organized tax avoidance industry.
The Donald Trump effect: India faces prospect of integrating deeper with Asia-Pacific if RCEP expands into FTAAP
25-Nov-2016 Financial Express
As a major non-APEC member of the RCEP, India faces the prospect of integrating deeper with the Asia-Pacific if the RCEP expands into the FTAAP
China says it will promote trade deals regardless of TPP, RCEP direction
24-Nov-2016 Reuters
China said it will actively participate in bilateral and multilateral trade deals regardless of the direction the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) or the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)
As Trump kills TPP, China eyes December talks to fill trade void
23-Nov-2016 Bloomberg
The proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP, has become the next best hope for trade-hungry Asian nations
TiSA negotiations fall victim to the Trump tremor
23-Nov-2016 Live Mint
In these quixotic and post-truth times, nemesis has its subtle ways of catching up with the reality.
Singapore to amend legislation to bring TPP into effect by next year: PM Lee
23-Nov-2016 Channel News Asia
Singapore will continue with the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) despite a “twist in the road”
Japan, Peru to forge ahead with TPP procedures
23-Nov-2016 NHK
The leaders of Japan and Peru have agreed to press ahead with efforts to implement the Trans-Pacific Partnership, despite a pledge by President-elect Donald Trump to pull the US out of the free trade deal.
Trump: US to quit TPP trade deal on first day in office
22-Nov-2016 BBC
President-elect Donald Trump says the US will quit the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal on his first day in the White House.
Labor joins Coalition in backing larger trade deal to replace TPP
18-Nov-2016 The Guardian
Consensus in Canberra as leaders prepare to attend Apec summit and confront the death of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Demise of TPP celebrated by global social movements
17-Nov-2016 TeleSur
Civil society movements across Asia, Latin America, Oceania, and North America announced that their seven-year strategic campaign had successfully derailed the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Amid dying TPP, APEC summit to focus on China’s trade deal
17-Nov-2016 teleSUR
In a blow to the suspended U.S.-backed TPP, several countries in the Pacific Rim are now looking to join China’s free trade agreements.
To safeguard the Paris agreement, trade deals must align with climate policy
16-Nov-2016 Alternet
Our trade agreements—current and proposed—don’t send the right signals for the U.S. and other countries to meet their Paris commitments.
Trump transition memo: Trade reform begins Day 1
16-Nov-2016 CNN
First is renegotiating or withdrawing from NAFTA, second is stopping the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, third is stopping "unfair imports," fourth is ending "unfair trade practices," and fifth is pursuing bilateral trade deals.
TPP bill passed by Parliament
15-Nov-2016 Newshub
New Zealand Parliament has passed the Bill that allows the Government to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership amid opposition complaints that it’s a waste of time.
APEC summit opens reaffirming commitment to free trade
15-Nov-2016 Business Standard
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) Leaders Week started off promising free trade "with or without" the US support.
The battle against TPP isn’t over, but it has shifted
15-Nov-2016 Electronic Frontier Foundation
The battle against the deal is not over. Why not? Because the other TPP countries are still in the process of passing their implementing legislation.
APEC week kicks off in Peru with regional free trade area high on agenda
14-Nov-2016 Manila Bulletin
A creation of Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP), which would include all APEC states, is one of the main topics on the agenda of the 2016 APEC Summit.
Tanzanian parliament scuttles EPA deal ahead of January meeting
14-Nov-2016 Citizen
The Tanzanian parliament has shot down plans for the country to sign the economic partnership agreement (EPA).