A new website, Trans-Pacific Partnership Digest, has been launched to provide a comprehensive data base of material on the negotiations for a Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement involving New Zealand and seven other countries (the US, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam).
The second round of negotiations will take place in San Francisco next week. The website resource is part of a larger research project to identify and critically evaluate the potential implications of the agreement. It is led by Professor Jane Kelsey and has been supported by a grant from the School of Law at the University of Auckland.
Whatever one¹s views about the TPP, there has been far too little informed public debate about the rationale, potential content and ramifications, said Professor Kelsey.
This website aims to make information and opinion from all perspectives easily accessible to politicians, journalists, academics and students, activists, community groups, the business sector and interested people generally, and to stimulate critical debate.
The Digest is located at http://p4tpp.dyndns.org/