Press Release – Employers And Manufacturers Association The ‘new’ study said to cast doubt on the likely benefits of the Trans Pacific Partnership deal is without any merit as it based on pure speculation, the Employers and Manufacturers Association says.
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Press Release – BusinessNZ Leading New Zealand businesses are joining with the New Zealand Government to welcome over 250 business leaders from the Asia Pacific region when Auckland hosts a meeting of the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) 11-14 February.
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Press Release – Sustainability Council of New Zealand The TPPs economic benefits are less than a quarter of those the government has claimed – and the proposed trade deal would impose serious costs. The government has repeatedly used estimates from a team of US economists to justify the Trans Pacific …
TPP’s Benefits Less Than a Quarter of Government’s Claim Read More »
Article – BusinessDesk Feb. 5 (BusinessDesk) Electricity companies are absorbing nearly twice as much new cost as theyre passing on to their customers as the retail market for power becomes increasingly competitive, the industrys regulator, the Electricity Authority, …
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Column – Gordon Campbell The fog of secrecy around the Trans Pacific Partnership has always triggered concern about what New Zealand may be willing to give away in these talks, without any substantive Parliamentary debate of these concessions beforehand.
Gordon Campbell on the alleged gains to NZ from the TPP Read More »
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey The fig leaf of over $5 billion in gains to the New Zealand economy from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement has been stripped away, said Auckland University law professor Jane Kelsey, a long-term critic of the proposed TPPA. The Sustainability …
National Government loses $5 billion-plus fig leaf for TPPA Read More »
Article – BusinessDesk Feb. 3 (BusinessDesk) Pharmac, which manages an annual drug-funding budget of more than $780 million, plans to extend a three-year hiring spree after expanding in medical devices, vaccines and hospital medicines.
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Article – Byron Clark The Internet Party is going to fundamentally change this countrys political landscape, apparently. Its unusual for a party that has not registered with the electoral commission, and who havent announced any concrete policy or candidates, to be …
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Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey If trade ministers from the countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) were looking for a signal from President Obama in yesterdays State of the Union address that he was serious about cutting a deal, they will be …
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Press Release – Beef And Lamb NZ The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) must include total elimination of tariffs on agricultural and seafood products, say leading New Zealand food producers. A coalition of 18 New Zealand agricultural and food organisations, led by Beef + Lamb New Zealand …
TPP Agreement Must Completely Eliminate Tariffs Read More »
Press Release – Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Obama Downplays Trade Authority, Trans-Pacific Partnership: Fleeting Mention Doesnt Even Reference Recently Introduced Camp-Baucus Fast Track Bill
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Article – BusinessDesk Jan. 28 (BusinessDesk) The governments top trade priority this year will be concluding the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but Prime Minister John Keys speech for todays opening of Parliament suggests its given up on expecting to pass …
Concluding TPP govt’s top trade priority, says Key Read More »
