World Bank: TPP better for NZ than US, MFAT confirms signing
Article – BusinessDesk More for NZ than US in TPP, says World Bank study, as MFAT confirms NZ signing ceremony
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TPPA signing will be a historic farce
Press Release – New Zealand First Party 12 JANUARY 2016 TPPA signing will be a historic farce New Zealand First is questioning why a farcical TPPA signing will take place just before Waitangi Day, when United States lawmakers are unlikely to vote on the TPP before Novembers Presidential …
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Chile reveals NZ to host TPP signing, Govt tight-lipped
Article – BusinessDesk Jan. 7 (BusinessDesk) – The director of Chile’s economic relations bureau has said New Zealand will host the signing ceremony for the controversial Trans Pacific Partnership next month. A second country, Peru, has told Bloomberg that its Deputy Trade Minister …
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Gordon Campbell on Tim Groser’s new job in Washington
Opinion – Gordon Campbell If you ever played word association games with the name Tim Groser it would normally take a long, long time for anyone to suggest him as an ideal match for the word diplomatic. Thats why his retirement from Parliament earlier this week …
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Gordon Campbell on the view from Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
Column – Gordon Campbell Sorry for being out of radio contact overseas for much of this week, even as the Cunliffe/Mahuta duo were being deep-sixed by that feisty Labour leader Andrew Little. (Actually, Ill believe feisty when Little says goodnight and goodbye …
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Dunne Speaks – Time to end Japanese Whaling
Column – Peter Dunne 3 December 2015 The announcement that Japan intends to resume scientific whaling, as it prefers to call blatant slaughter, in the Southern Ocean this season received surprisingly scant attention last week. There were the ritualistic expressions of …
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Goldsmith Update: November 2015
Column – New Zealand National Party The political scene is much like the spring weather: changeable and stormy. It has always been that way, with a focus on who said what to whom yesterday, or the day before.
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Trade Minister travels to Philippines for APEC
Press Release – New Zealand Government Trade Minister Tim Groser will depart today for the Philippines to attend the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Ministerial Meeting.
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Select committee scrutiny of TPP deal likely after February
Article – BusinessDesk Nov. 10 (BusinessDesk) – The foreign affairs, defence and trade select committee is likely to start public hearings on the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and associated National Interest Assessment soon after governments sign the accord, expected …
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Obama’s 90 days start of US politicing to rewrite TPPA
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey Following release of the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) last night, President Obama has given the 90-day notice to Congress that is required before he can sign the agreement.
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TPP central banks to refrain from currency manipulation
Article – BusinessDesk Nov. 6 (BusinessDesk) – The Reserve Bank of New Zealand and its 11 counterparts in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade and investment pact have agreed to avoid unfair currency manipulation as part of a regionwide push for greater cooperation, adopting …
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TPP document shows net benefit for countries such as NZ
Article – BusinessDesk TPP document shows net benefit for countries such as NZ dominated by SMEs, Ballingall says
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