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TPP fallout continues
8-Sep-2016 Politico
The list of groups coming out against the TPP as it currently stands continues to get longer.
The climate cost of free trade
7-Sep-2016 IATP
As countries take action to protect the climate, conflicts between trade rules and climate goals will escalate. The intentional separation of these two global priorities is becoming increasingly untenable.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership undermines global efforts to address climate change
6-Sep-2016 IATP
This press release announces a new paper on how the TPP impacts efforts to address climate change.
Why Russia and China want to limit US economic influence in Asia-Pacific
2-Sep-2016 Russia Direct
Given new attempts by the U.S. to create economic integration structures that will restrain Chinese dominance in the region, Beijing is working on building deeper economic cooperation with other Asia-Pacific countries – including Russia.
Christchurch March for Democracy, National Day of Action
1-Sep-2016 Scoop
The purpose of the protest march is to show that a wide cross-section of groups and organisations are united in concern about the government’s intention to ratify the TPPA
Emergency services turn life-threatening under US private equity owners — and a global Trade in Services Agreement would globalize the damage
31-Aug-2016 IUF
Vital public services like firefighting and ambulances are being handed over to a small number of transnational companies worldwide, a trend that will be hugely boosted by TPP, TTIP, CETA and TiSA.
Cutting red tape Japan’s focus in preparation for TPP
29-Aug-2016 Bloomberg
Japan’s government will focus on cutting red tape to accommodate foreign businesses wanting access to the Japanese market as it ramps up efforts to have a 12-nation Asia-Pacific trade pact ratified
Chile plans to send TPP Pacific trade deal to Congress this year
26-Aug-2016 Reuters
Despite protests and opposition from social movements, the Chilean government is expecting to send the Trans-Pacific Partnership to its Congress for approval by the end of 2016, President Michelle Bachelet said on Thursday.
Opposition to TPP grows as postal workers’ union rallies against deal
25-Aug-2016 RT
Some 2,000 members of the American Postal Workers Union have gathered in Miami where they are officially opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
How a wonky trade pact you’d never heard of became a huge campaign issue
19-Aug-2016 Mother Jones
Interview with Larry Cohen, president of the Communications Workers of America
Where does India stand on intellectual property rights in the digital economy?
17-Aug-2016 Observer Research Foundation
A scrutiny of TPP, TISA and RCEP provisions that deal with IP and the digital economy vis-a-vis the current Indian legal standard.
Obama puts Congress on notice: TPP is coming
15-Aug-2016 Politico
The White House put Congress on notice that it will be sending lawmakers a bill to implement President Barack Obama’s landmark Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement — a move intended to infuse new energy into efforts to ratify the flat-lining trade pact, reports Politico.
Free people from ‘dictatorship’ of 0.01%
10-Aug-2016 Deccan Chronicle
Through RCEP, Asian countries may be dragged into the TPP under pressure of harmonisation, especially on issues related to seed, warns Vandana Shiva
Grassroots Democrats are making the TPP a big issue in congressional races
9-Aug-2016 The Nation
Trade policy in general—and the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement in particular—has become a vital concern for Democrats in the upcoming US elections.
Water for gold
5-Aug-2016 Loading Docs
Water for Gold tells the alarming story of how international trade law is leading us to trade our most basic rights to clean, safe water for access to gold.
Philippines holds informal TPP membership talks with US
5-Aug-2016 Reuters
The Philippines is eager to join the 12-nation Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal and it has already held informal talks with the United States to do so.
Trade deal’s supporters counterattack
2-Aug-2016 Politico
Advocates remain steadfastly optimistic, insisting the agreement still has a shot at approval despite being opposed by both major-party presidential candidates.
Demand justice for Korean farmer Baek Nam-gi
1-Aug-2016 IUF
Korean farmer Baek Nam-gi remains unconscious in a hospital bed in Seoul after he was struck down by police water cannon in the mass demonstration against the government’s promotion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Delegates are using the convention to make the TPP politically unacceptable
29-Jul-2016 The Nation
A clear line has been drawn at the corporate-friendly trade deal during this year’s convention.
Trans-Pacific Partnership provisions ’questionable’, says Productivity Commission
27-Jul-2016 The Guardian
Commission casts doubt on copyright and investor state dispute settlement clauses in trade and assistance review