Agriculture

Canada Weighs In – Peter Clark on the TPP

Article – Gordon Campbell For a fresh perspective on the TPP, here is a comprehensive paper on the regional trade talks published late last week by Canadian trade specialist and trade lawyer Peter Clark, of the multinational legal firm Gray, Clark, Shih and Associates. Clark …

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John Key at Japan New Zealand Business Council Conference

Speech – New Zealand Government Konnichiwa. Good afternoon. It’s a pleasure to be here at your conference. I want to thank the members of the Japan New Zealand Business Council – on both sides of the Pacific – for all the good work you do in developing trade relations, and …

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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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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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