TPP Watch Bulletin #20
Column – itsourfuture4.localdev A fortnightly summary of news and New Zealand activities around the Trans-Pacific Partnership, published by itsourfuture4.localdev
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Canada joins TPP talks, puts farm protection on the table
Article – BusinessDesk Oct. 10 (BusinessDesk) – Canada’s heavily protected markets, which have been a barrier to New Zealand’s agricultural exports, face an overhaul after the North American nation formally joined the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations.
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Gordon Campbell on APEC, and its significance for TPP talks
Column – Gordon Campbell Once upon a time, the APEC gathering of nations threatened to become a significant free trade bloc in its own right. Remember the Bogor Goals of 1994? But these days, not so much, apart from a bit of fiddling around with eco-friendly tariff levels.
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Clinton Remarks With New Zealand Prime Minister Key
Press Release – US State Department Okay, so good afternoon. Welcome to Ngatipa, the New Zealand residence here in the Cook Islands. It’s been a pleasure for me to host Secretary Clinton and her team for lunch today. It’s always wonderful to have Secretary Clinton in this part of …
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International coalition favours Kiwi position on Copyright
Press Release – Internet NZ InternetNZ (Internet New Zealand Inc) notes that the largest coalition of civil society groups to speak out on US copyright proposals in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) has today indicated support for New Zealand’s counterproposal.
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EFF on Leaked TPP IP Chapter – ISPs As Copyright Cops
Press Release – Electronic Frontier Foundation The TPP wants service providers to undertake the financial and administrative burdens of becoming copyright cops, serving a copyright maximalist agenda while disregarding the consequences for Internet freedom and innovation.
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Speech: Groser – Governance and Multilateralism
Speech – New Zealand Government Hon Tim Groser Minister of Trade 16 August 2012 Speech Speech to the NZ Institute for International Affairs Governance and Multilateralism in the 21st Century Thank you for this opportunity to put forward some ideas about Global Governance and multilateral …
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Clinton Remarks With Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh
Press Release – US State Department SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you very much, Foreign Minister Minh, for your warm welcome today. It’s wonderful being back in Vietnam, and I appreciate this opportunity to reaffirm the growing and mutually beneficial partnership between our two nations.
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Remarks With Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh After Meeting
Press Release – US State Department SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you very much, Foreign Minister Minh, for your warm welcome today. It’s wonderful being back in Vietnam, and I appreciate this opportunity to reaffirm the growing and mutually beneficial partnership between our two nations.
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Australian, NZ and US Unrest over Canada’s Inclusion in TPP
Press Release – Joint Press Release The recent announcement at the G20 summit of Canada’s inclusion into the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has got member countries the United States of America (US), New Zealand (NZ) and Australia up in arms over Canada’s open agricultural subsidisation …
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Background Briefing En Route to Mongolia
Press Release – US State Department MODERATOR: All right, everybody. We are en route from Tokyo to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, starting the leg of this trip which is focused intensively on the Asia pivot. We have with us [Senior State Department Official], hereafter known as Senior State …
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Remarks With Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba
Press Release – US State Department MODERATOR: (Via interpreter) Ladies and gentlemen, we would like to commence the press conference with Minister Gemba and Secretary Clinton. First of all Minister Gemba will speak, and then Secretary Clinton will follow.
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