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The post-Maui Ministerial Press Conference is just wrapping up, where Ministers yet again were unable to conclude a deal. The Press Conference was heavy on platitudes but light on detail of actual progress, with Ministers trailing out the oft-repeated mantras around the need to restrict transparency. We will bring you further media reports as they become […]

A busy time in the House this week with a lot of questions on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. James Shaw asking John Key about the benefits to the ICT sector and the risks of investor-state dispute settlement and Andrew Little on Pharmac costs: Annette King asking Minister Jonathan Young about the increased health costs likely

Vice Magazine has an article by Jordan Pearson covering the latest TPPA leaks and concluding that the agreement is a “horrorshow” based on the leaked content. The Vice article gives a great introduction to the perils of a completed TPPA, including it’s impact on local markets and damage to national economies. It then goes on to

While the outcome of Wednesday’s vote on the Fighting Foreign Corporate Control Bill at the first reading was 61-60 against, there were some excellent speeches. The standout was this one from NZ First’s Fletcher Tabuteau, who introduced the Bill:

An article by Daniel Pearson (senior fellow in trade policy studies at the libertarian Cato Institute) appears in The Hill titled ‘Boost support for TPP by rethinking ISDS’, in which he suggests removing investor-state dispute settlement from the negotiation: True, cross-border investors would prefer that TPP include ISDS.  But most U.S. companies understand that the real

From POLITICO: The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative today officially announced the upcoming Trans-Pacific Partnership talks in Maui, Hawaii, but steered clear of calling it the conclusive meeting that could wrap up more than five years of negotiations. “Since they last met in May, trade ministers from the 12 TPP countries have been working

Recently more and more New Zealanders are emailing Act MP David Seymour with regard to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and Fletcher Tabuteau’s Fighting Foreign Corporate Control Bill. Seymour’s office is responding with a standard email designed to quell their concerns. The response is riddled with inaccuracies that reveal a hole in Seymour’s knowledge about the

Press Release: Professor Jane Kelsey 12 February 2015 ‘Trade minister Tim Groser has repeatedly claimed that negotiations for agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) are never conducted in daylight. That is simply not true.’ ‘There are many such instances, including the Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) that involved six of the TPPA parties,[1] where draft

8 November is an international day of action against the TPPA, and kiwis are kicking things off. Find your local event from the list below: Auckland, Hamilton, Raglan, Tauranga, Rotorua, New Plymouth, Gisborne, Napier, Palmerston North, Levin, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Timaru, Dunedin, Invercargill.

If #TPPA is ever completed it will be a massive #owngoal for kiwi workers, health and environment #TPPANoWay #WorldTradeCup Like the World Cup, #TPPA is a Trojan horse for #neoliberal policy, and we don’t even get to vote on it! #TPPANoWay #WorldTradeCup #TPPA will let the banks and TNCs play striker while the rest of us will be stuck in defence #TPPANoWay #WorldTradeCup #WorldTradeCup #RedCard alert! Has #NZ #trade minister shown @johnkeypm to be a liar on #TPPA? http://bit.ly/1kL2Gs4 #TPP#NoTPPA #WorldCup

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade recently held ‘stakeholder meetings’ between TPPA negotiators and interested parties. The meetings took place on the 3 July (Auckland), 4 July (Christchurch) and 5 July (Dunedin). It’s Our Future has reports from the Auckland and Wellington meetings, which have been placed in the Resources section. As far as we