Press Release – Beef And Lamb NZ The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) must include total elimination of tariffs on agricultural and seafood products, say leading New Zealand food producers. A coalition of 18 New Zealand agricultural and food organisations, led by Beef + Lamb New Zealand …
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Article – BusinessDesk Jan. 28 (BusinessDesk) The governments top trade priority this year will be concluding the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but Prime Minister John Keys speech for todays opening of Parliament suggests its given up on expecting to pass …
Concluding TPP govt’s top trade priority, says Key Read More »
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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Column – Binoy Kampmark Nothing happens at the supposedly dazzling do at the World Economic Forum held at Davos at least, of the constructive sort. It is a heavily catered talk bonanza on what people have already agreed to. It has a huge pretence to discuss policy.
Fictitious Withdrawals: The Myth of US Disengagement Read More »
Opinion – Peter Drew The Trans Pacific Partnership The End of NZ as a Sovereign Nation What is the biggest threat that NZ as a nation has ever encountered in its relatively short history? Was it World War 1 which led to NZ losing 3% of it entire population at horrific …
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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 …
Secret TPP Environment Chapter Consolidated Text released Read More »
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 …
TPP result likely in a couple of months, says APEC’s Bollard Read More »
Press Release – Federated Farmers New Zealands foremost rural lobby will face more than the General Election this year with the term of the Federations 28th National President, Bruce Wills, ending in July.
2014 and a year of change for Federated Farmers Read More »
Column – Gordon Campbell One of the pitfalls of instant opinionating is the assumption that politicians know what theyre doing and that the job at hand is to unravel the conspiracies that surely behind the daily litany of brazen pandering.
Gordon Campbell on not letting the year 2014 spoil Christmas Read More »
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 …
National must back Malaysia’s tobacco carveout in TPPA Read More »
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey When someone at the Singapore hotel that hosted the recent ministerial meeting on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement suggested the next meeting of ministers could be in Europe, I thought he was joking, says Auckland University law professor …
TPPA ministerial slated for Davos, Switzerland in January Read More »
Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey In light of the reiteration of the incorrect assertion that Parliament that would ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement by Stephen Jacobi on Morning Report today, I am reissuing the following explanation and associated press release from …
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