Press Release – Democrats for Social Credit Currently New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Brunei, Vietnam, the USA, Japan, Malaysia, Canada, and Mexico are still negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. Officially talks finished last August, but the reality is that they keep …
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Article – BusinessDesk July 21 (BusinessDesk) – The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a step backwards to the days before the World Trade Organisation when the the US and Europe controlled the global trading system to the detriment of developing economies, says a former director-general …
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Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey The most opaque round of talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement to date ended in Ottawa yesterday. The odds of President Obama achieving his goal of a meaningful document by the APEC leaders summit in November hangs in the balance, according …
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Press Release – Council of Canadians Ottawa With an undisclosed location, hidden session schedules, and even key foreign negotiators kept out of the loop, the secrecy surrounding next weeks Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiating round in Ottawa marks a new low point in transparency …
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Press Release – TV One PM says NZ wouldnt have an issue with US drone strikes against terrorists in Iraq
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Press Release – U.S. Department of State Remarks Daniel R. Russel Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs Wilson Center Washington, DC June 18, 2014
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Press Release – OraTaiao A new report concludes that fracking practices in NZ pose risks to health and the environment. The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment has recommended that regulations be overhauled and tightened to protect New Zealanders from harm. But …
Prevention of fracking harms would be shackled by trade deal Read More »
Speech – New Zealand Government Its a pleasure to be here in Manila on my first visit as New Zealand Trade Minister alongside a delegation of New Zealand companies.
Address to business chambers event – Philippines Read More »
Speech – New Zealand Government Given the theme of your Conference “Rising Asia: Messages for the Next 20 Years”, it took me no time to select a topic for my speech “TPP and Trade Integration in the Asia-Pacific”.
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Press Release – Five Nations Beef Alliance Beef producers from four Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) member countries have again demanded that any TPP agreement be a high quality deal that eliminates all tariffs on beef.
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Column – Gordon Campbell So Labour MP Trevor Mallard has got himself in hot water with Speaker of the House David Carter for tweeting that Mr Speaker seemed to have been acting of late like a Mafia Don running a protection racket on behalf of his colleagues.
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Press Release – United States Trade Representative We, the Ministers and Heads of Delegation for Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam have just completed a two-day ministerial meeting during which we reviewed …
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