Press Release – Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network The 12th round of Trans-Pacific partnership (TPP) negotiations begins in Dallas, Texas today between Australia, the US, New Zealand, Chile, Peru, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam, amid criticism by fair trade groups and prominent lawyers.
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Press Release – Warwick Taylor The New Zealand Stock Exchange will be the focus of a protest against privatisation at 12 noon on Thursday 10 May. The protest, which is part of the Aotearoa is Not for Sale hikoi will draw attention to the real beneficiaries of the proposed partial …
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Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey More than 100 jurists from New Zealand and other countries currently or potentially engaged in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, including some of their most eminent lawyers, ave sent an open letter to the negotiators calling for the right …
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Speech – New Zealand Labour Party Labour’s Foreign Affairs and Trade spokesperson, Phil Goff, has today given a speech to the New Zealand United State Council 10th Anniversary Conference.
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Press Release – NZUS Council The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) could deliver substantial gains to the New Zealand economy, delegates will be told at the NZ US Council’s 10th Anniversary Conference in Auckland tomorrow.
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Press Release – New Zealand First Party Rt Hon Winston Peters New Zealand First Leader Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs 20 April 2012 Government Faces US Lawsuit Floodgates New Zealand First says veiled legal threats against the Government’s plans for plain packaging on cigarettes …
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Press Release – First Union Plans to introduce plain packaging of cigarettes could come unstuck as a result of New Zealand’s involvement in trade talks – which so far remain in secret.
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Speech – NZ Embassy in Washington Ambassador Mike Moore Address to Centre for Australia and New Zealand Studies, Georgetown University, Washington DC 12 April 2012 “Foreign Policy in an Interdependent World: A New Zealand Perspective” (As prepared for delivery) Ladies and Gentlemen, It’s …
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Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey “As anticipated, now that the US has taken control of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations it has removed the only pretense of transparency – the day-long ‘stakeholder’ programme where critics can present information and analysis directly …
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Press Release – New Zealand Government Growing two-way trade and strengthening people-to-people links will be the focus of Prime Minister John Key’s visit to Indonesia and Singapore later this month. Mr Key, accompanied by Trade Minister Tim Groser in Indonesia, will lead a 26–strong …
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Press Release – University of Auckland The nine parties to the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPPA) negotiations have made a dramatic and unexpected u-turn, agreeing to lift the veil of secrecy on their draft texts and background documents.
Release of Draft TPP Text Hailed as “Triumph for Democracy” Read More »
Press Release – New Zealand Government Trade Minister Tim Groser continues his travel from China to Malaysia today to support a business delegation and to discuss trade issues with his Malaysian counterpart.
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