Press Release – New Zealand First Party The clock is ticking – its time for the Prime Minister to give a straight answer over the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, says New Zealand First leader Rt Hon Winston Peters.
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Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey Groser must support Malaysias tobacco carveout at TPPA Ministerial on 22 Feb Trade Minister Tim Groser must support Malaysias proposals to carve tobacco out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement if the National government wants to …
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Column – Gordon Campbell On Wednesday, I reported on a local analysis of the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal, which argued, among other things, that the TPP is not primarily a trade deal at all – but more of a package of entitlements for US corporates and financiers.
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Press Release – Wikileaks Today, 15 January 2014, WikiLeaks released the secret draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Environment Chapter and the corresponding Chairs’ Report. The TPP transnational legal regime would cover 12 countries initially and encompass …
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Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey The governments negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement need to wave a white flag and agree to release the whole draft text, said University of Auckland Professor Jane Kelsey as another leaked chapter was posted on Wikileaks.
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Article – BusinessDesk Jan. 14 (BusinessDesk) The final shape of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement should emerge in the next couple of months, although how far the new trade pact will go in new generation issues such as intellectual property remains …
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Press Release – Jane Kelsey It is great news that the plain packaging tobacco law will be introduced to the House next year, albeit more than three years after the Maori Affairs Committees report on how to make Aotearoa New Zealand effectively smokefree by 2025, said …
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Press Release – Trans-Pacific Partnership Leaders Statement We, the Ministers and Heads of Delegation for Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam, have just completed a four-day Ministerial meeting in Singapore where …
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Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey The four-day ministerial summit on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement concluded late yesterday in Singapore. In one sense, they failed to deliver on their end game of a deal by December 2013, said Professor Kelsey, who has been in Singapore …
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Press Release – New Zealand Government Trade Minister Tim Groser today welcomed the significant progress made during the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Ministerial meetings in Singapore over the last four days.
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Column – Gordon Campbell Even before this weeks leaks via Wikileaks about the current state of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks, there were signs the deal was in trouble. As Werewolf has been reporting for months, precious little progress was being made on this deal …
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Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey In an outrageous practice borrowed from the WTO, known as green room negotiations, small groups of Ministers are meeting to broker compromise texts to put to the rest of the parties negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
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