Press Release – New Zealand Government Trade Minister Tim Groser today welcomed the announcement that New Zealand will host the next round of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations over 3-12 December.
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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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Press Release – International Business Forum The New Zealand International Business Forum (NZIBF) congratulates outgoing Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard on his appointment as Executive Director of APEC.
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Press Release – Amnesty International Negotiators from nine countries gathering outside Washington DC to draft a new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement must ensure that any new rules on copyright and patents adhere to core principles of transparency and uphold human rights, Amnesty …
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Press Release – NZUS Council 4 September 2012 Finish an ambitious TPP in 2013, say Asia Pacific business leaders On the eve of the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting to be in held in Vladivostok, Russia, business organisations from around the APEC region have once again joined …
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Press Release – AFTINET “Thirty trade unions, church, environment, health and other community groups have written to the Trade Minister urging him to implement his policy of opposing the right of corporations to sue governments in international tribunals in the 14th round …
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Press Release – US State Department Okay, so good afternoon. Welcome to Ngatipa, the New Zealand residence here in the Cook Islands. It’s been a pleasure for me to host Secretary Clinton and her team for lunch today. It’s always wonderful to have Secretary Clinton in this part of …
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Press Release – New Zealand Government Hon Tim Groser Minister of Trade 31 August 2012 Media Statement New Zealand in emerging Asian FTA New Zealand is part of a new initiative to create a regional free trade agreement in East Asia Trade Minister Tim Groser announced today. Mr Groser is in …
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Press Release – Electronic Frontier Foundation The TPP wants service providers to undertake the financial and administrative burdens of becoming copyright cops, serving a copyright maximalist agenda while disregarding the consequences for Internet freedom and innovation.
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Press Release – New Zealand Government Trade Minister Tim Groser will meet with visiting United States Senator Max Baucus this week. Senator Baucus, of Montana, is Chair of the US Senate Finance Committee and influential in trade policy, especially in relation to free trade agreements.
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Press Release – New Zealand Government Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully today announced former Prime Minister Mike Moore will serve a second term as New Zealand’s Ambassador to Washington, and named Leon Grice as the next Consul-General in Los Angeles.
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Press Release – New Zealand Government Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully will today meet the Second Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Brunei, Pehin Lim Jock Seng. Minister Lim is chairman of the Brunei National Petroleum Company and former chairman of Royal Brunei Airlines.
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