Press Release – Beef And Lamb NZ Beef + Lamb New Zealand CEO, Dr Scott Champion pressed home the need for comprehensive tariff elimination in the Trans Pacific partnership during a visit to the United States last week.
US Visit Focuses on Duty-Free Access to TPP Markets Read More »
Press Release – AFTINET Prime Minister Abbotts Washington talks on the stalled TPP between the US, Australia and ten other Pacific Rim countries will not solve the three major intractable problems which have dragged the negotiations into their fifth year, Dr Patricia …
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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 »
Column – United Future NZ Party Despite constant claims that New Zealand follows an independent foreign policy, the truth is that we have never been far from the cringe factor.
Dunne Speaks on Drones, Foreign Policy and Trade Read More »
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 …
Joint Statement at the TPP Ministers Meeting in Singapore Read More »
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey At the end of a two-day ministerial meeting on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) in Singapore it seems clearer than ever that New Zealand stands to get almost nothing if they do reach a deal, and we will pay a very high price in return, …
Singapore ministerial shows NZ likely to pay price for TPPA Read More »
Press Release – New Zealand Government Prime Minister John Key has welcomed an invitation to meet the President of the United States during his upcoming visit to the US. The White House has announced President Obama will meet the Prime Minister in Washington DC on Friday, 20 June. …
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Press Release – New Zealand Government Trade Minister Tim Groser will depart tomorrow for Qingdao, China to represent the New Zealand Government at the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting of Ministers Responsible for Trade (MRT) on 17-18 May.
Minister to visit China, Singapore and Japan Read More »
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey The government has maintained an absurd veil of secrecy over the negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and it keeps getting worse, according to University of Auckland law professor Jane Kelsey.
TPPA secrecy scales bizarre new heights Read More »
Press Release – It’s Our Future As U.S. President Obama returned from a week of crucial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks, a large, broad-based international campaign took its message to the heart of Washington, D.C. Last night, a projection of a 3.1 million signature petition …
Huge international TPP campaign, 3.1mil signature petition Read More »
Column – Gordon Campbell So after all the years of talk about momentum and claims that significant progress was being made – dutifully reported by the mainstream media – a conclusion to the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal seems as far as away as ever.
Gordon Campbell on the TPP | Lorde whinging about journalism Read More »
