Press Release – Mana Party Hone Harawira, MANA Leader and MP for Te Tai Tokerau I will always support any anti-tobacco legislation said Hone Harawira, MANA Leader and MP for Te Tai Tokerau but insisting on tobacco being sold in plain packets while allowing Big Tobacco …
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Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey Groser must support Malaysias tobacco carveout at TPPA Ministerial on 22 Feb Trade Minister Tim Groser must support Malaysias proposals to carve tobacco out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement if the National government wants to …
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Press Release – NZ Beef and Lamb Beef producers from the four largest beef producing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) member countries continue to advocate that any TPP agreement must deliver on the 2011 TPP Ministers position of eliminating tariffs and other barriers to trade. …
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Press Release – Grain and Seed Trade Assn Radish, carrots, ryegrass and white and red clover are just some of the high value export seed crops grown in this country every year, many of them in Canterbury, and exported to over 60 world New data sourced from Statistics New Zealand show the total …
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Column – Gordon Campbell On Wednesday, I reported on a local analysis of the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal, which argued, among other things, that the TPP is not primarily a trade deal at all – but more of a package of entitlements for US corporates and financiers.
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Press Release – Business NZ This week provides a good opportunity to advance the New Zealand-Australia relationship, says BusinessNZ. The business delegation visit and meeting of both Prime Ministers in Sydney is one of many occasions for the ongoing work of drawing our two economies …
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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 …
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Speech – New Zealand Government The Government is continuing to implement its plan to build a faster-growing economy with more jobs and rising incomes, and to support New Zealanders and their families.
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Press Release – Wikileaks Today, 15 January 2014, WikiLeaks released the secret draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Environment Chapter and the corresponding Chairs’ Report. The TPP transnational legal regime would cover 12 countries initially and encompass …
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Article – BusinessDesk Jan. 14 (BusinessDesk) The final shape of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement should emerge in the next couple of months, although how far the new trade pact will go in new generation issues such as intellectual property remains …
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Press Release – Patricia Ranald US fast track Bill for Trans-Pacific Trade deal (TPP) faces stiff opposition in Congress
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Press Release – Jane Kelsey It is great news that the plain packaging tobacco law will be introduced to the House next year, albeit more than three years after the Maori Affairs Committees report on how to make Aotearoa New Zealand effectively smokefree by 2025, said …
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