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CAFCA submission on P4
Posted on December 12, 2008 | No CommentsDownload CAFCA submission on P4 (December 2008) PDF (148 Kb) -
Jane Kelsey submission on P4
Posted on December 12, 2008 | No CommentsDownload Professor Jane Kelsey submission on P4 (December 2008) PDF (128 Kb) -
Fair trade?
Posted on November 13, 2008 | No CommentsThis article originally appeared in Your Weekend, 1 November 2008, reproduced with permission. Nikki Macdonald (a senior writer for the Dominion Post) examines what we would get out of a free trade deal with the United States. Would it mutually beneficial, or are we looking to get slammed?... -
Australia and the P4
Posted on November 11, 2008 | No CommentsDownload Australia and the P4 article on Australia and the P4 from Dr Patricia Ranald, Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network (AFTINET) (MS Word file, 32 Kb) -
Submissions called for on FTA with US
Posted on October 25, 2008 | No CommentsSubmissions called for on FTA with US (Submissions close on 8 December) The Government is inviting submissions on New Zealand’s upcoming Free Trade Agreement negotiations with the United States as part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (currently called the P4), Trade Minister Phil Goff said today.... -
Financial instability and GATS
Posted on October 6, 2008 | No CommentsFinancial Instability, Financial Services and Investment in the P4 One of the major areas announced for negotiation in the P4 is Financial Services. This Briefing Paper, written by a Canadian expert Ellen Gould, is about the implications for financial instability in the Financial Services aspects of the current... -
US Free Trade agreement a poisoned chalice
Posted on September 30, 2008 | No CommentsPress release from the Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa, 29 September 2008 The proposed expansion of the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (NZ, Chile, Brunei, and Singapore, commonly known as the P4 Agreement) to include investment and financial services, and to add theUS to its membership, was bad enough.... -
Who wins if we get a free trade deal with the U.S?
Posted on September 25, 2008 | 2 Commentsby Bill Rosenberg Download this article in PDF format (84 kB) here As we have learned from the China FTA, we would be foolish to listen uncritically to the promises already being made for a trade deal with the US. The US drives a hard... -
CTU submission on the P4 (March 2008)
Posted on September 22, 2008 | No CommentsNew Zealand Council of Trade Unions submission on the extension of the P4 into investment and financial services Download PDF (125kb) -
Write a letter to your MP
Posted on September 9, 2008 | No CommentsLet your parliamentary representatives know what they should be representing! Here is a template letter/e-mail to send to MPs and party leaders, opposing the P4 extension. Real letters are taken much more seriously than form letters, so the draft letter below has some ‘mix and...