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Announcements, reaction and commentary on the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal and initial agreement details from NZ and the world.

Gordon Campbell: On The TPP Deal Reached In Atlanta

Yes, the TPP has helped to knock a few points off the tariffs facing our exporters. Yet some of those alleged dollar gains may well have been made regardless over time – and without the negative baggage of the concessions in the non-trade areas (intellectual property, copyright extensions, investor-state dispute mechanisms etc) that the TPP deal also brings in its wake.

Over the period from now until 2030, even the rosier projections for New Zealand see the TPP adding only about 1% per annum to this country’s GDP.

Public Summaries:

• United States Trade Representative – Summary of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
• United States Trade Representative – TPP Ministers’ Statement, Press Conference Video
• NZ Govt – TPP Q&A (PDF)

ALSO:

• BusinessDesk – Labour says jury’s out on supporting TPP – MARKET CLOSE: NZ shares rise on TPP; SkyCity gains – TPP deal gives limited win for NZ dairy – Business lobbies, wine growers, meat sector welcome TPP – Fonterra ‘very disappointed’ with limited TPP dairy deal
• Gordon Campbell – Gordon Campbell on the TPP fallout
• Professor Jane Kelsey – Continued imbalance of TPPA information indefensible – National government betrays NZers in TPPA deal
• TV3 Video – TPPA: What do we get and what are we giving? – TPPA negotiations ‘absolutely brutal’ – Groser – TPPA: What you need to know – TPPA response swift, varying – TPPA countries reach deal – Crunch time for TPPA deal
• Out-Link – First thoughts on the TPPA | The Dim-Post
• Out-Link – Rob Salmond: TPP, eh? • Public Address
• Out-Link – The just-completed Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, explained – Vox
• Out-Link – A TPP Deal Is Finally Reached, but Don’t Assume It Will Pass Congress | The Nation
• Out-Link – Hillary Clinton Comes Out Against TPP

Parliament Reaction: PM Welcomes TPP As NZ’s Biggest Trade Deal

Prime Minister John Key has welcomed the successful conclusion of negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement – New Zealand’s biggest free trade agreement. More>>

(Cartoon by Dave Wolland)

ALSO:

• NZ Govt – TPP delivers significant benefits for NZ – PM welcomes TPP as NZ’s biggest trade deal – TPP a win for regional New Zealand – TPP Q&A (PDF)
• Labour – New Zealand gave away right to protect houses and land – Groser playing games over Pharmac fallout – TPPA fails dairy and foreign buyers tests – New Zealand has missed the bus on TPP
• Greens – Bad TPPA deal will cost New Zealanders
• NZ First – Deal is About Corporate Influence Not Trade – New Bill to Stop Secrecy of Future Deals like TPPA – TPPA Deal Not What Government Promised
• ACT – ACT welcomes important progress for our trading nation
• Peter Dunne – Dunne Speaks: Trade is part of our economic DNA

Business reaction:

• Fonterra – Fonterra Chairman Acknowledges Conclusion of TPP Agreement
• Dairy Companies Association of NZ – TPP Concludes After Marathon Negotiating Effort
• ExportNZ – ExportNZ Welcomes TPP deal
• Business NZ – BusinessNZ says TPP a good deal for New Zealand
• Employers And Manufacturers Association – TPP Outstanding Achievement says EMA
• NZ Winegrowers – Wine industry welcomes Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement
• Wellington Chamber Of Commerce – TPP deal welcomed by Chamber
• Meat Industry Association – The MIA welcomes the conclusion of the TPP
• Zespri – Win for kiwifruit industry in TPP Agreement
• Beef And Lamb NZ – TPP good news for sheep and beef farmers
• Horticulture NZ – Good Result Gives Horticulture Room to Grow
• NZ Kiwifruit Growers – Trans Pacific Partnership Another Win for Kiwifruit Growers
• Seafood NZ – Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement
• Medicines NZ – Medicines New Zealand Statement on the TPP
• NZ Shippers Council – Shippers’ Council congratulates Government on TPP outcome
• American Chamber of Commerce – AmCham welcomes Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement
• The Kiwifruit Claim – Kiwifuit Claim Urges Zespri To Back Growers
• Latin America NZ Business Council – Conclusion of TPP negotiations
• Hawke’s Bay Winegrowers – Three Cheers for Wine Exports in TPP Agreement

Other Sectors:

• It’s Our Future – No more excuses, release the text NOW
• Internet NZ – TPPA means copyright law reform needed
• Greenpeace NZ – Greenpeace Response to TPP Deal Announcement
• NZTEU – Secret trade agreement bad for education and democracy
• FOMA – FOMA Welcomes New Trade Opportunities through TPPA
• FIRST Union – TPPA a “betrayal” – union
• NZMA – Independent health assessment still needed on TPPA
• Action On Smoking And Health – TPPA Tobacco Carve-out Good News for New Zealand Health
• Grey Power NZ – TPPA – “catious optimisim”
• AFTINET – Secret TPP deal lacks detail on medicines
• OpenMedia – TPP posing serious threat to global internet users
• ITUC – Pacific Trade Agreement a Recipe for Corporate Greed

Earlier:

Gordon Campbell: On The TPP Countdown, And Mary Margaret O’Hara

To date, the Key government has been unwilling to share any information about this TPP deal until it is too late for outraged public opinion to affect the outcome… the disclosure process is likely to consist of a similarly skewed and careful exercise in spin. More>>

ALSO:

• Scoop Business – Atlanta TPP talks head into the night
• TVNZ – Q+A – PM on TPP: “We’ve never ever been sued.”
• The Nation – PM John Key: TPP, Aussie Deportations, Syria
• Professor Jane Kelsey – TPPA ministerial extended another day – Groser’s ‘ugly compromise’ in TPPA could cost New Zealanders – Helen Clark needs to heed her own UN advisers on TPPA
• Labour – Are you fighting for our health, Mr Key?
• NZ First – Clark urges TPPA signing but we’ve had other poor deals – Peters: Circus or Soap Opera and Foreseen Circumstances
• Association of Salaried Medical Specialists – Patients deserve better than health as trade deal dead rat – Power of balance poised to tip even further
• Doctors for Healthy Trade – Will NZ rely on Peru’s position on Medicines in the TPPA? – Helen Clark on TPP
• Arbitrators’ and Mediators’ Institute of NZ – Investor State Arbitration and the TPPA
• AFTINET – TPP talks: Robb should reject “death sentence” deal – TPP talks delayed again
• TV3 Video – TPPA negotiations ‘close’ to completion – Key: TPP progressing towards something good

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