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- Focus on the Global South (Thailand)
- Jane Kelsey TPP–FTA website
- Keep Our Ports Public
- NZ Council of Trade Unions TPPA site (NZ)
- NZN4S on FaceBook
- Pacific Network on Globalisation
- Public Citizen (US)
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership Digest (NZ)
- TPP Watch ‘Taihoa on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Deal’ (NZ)
- Watchblog Aotearoa
Tag Archives: Overseas Investment Act
China could have sued under China FTA if Crafar farm sale was declined
If the New Zealand government had declined the Shanghai Pengxin purchase of the Crafar farm it could have faced an international law suit for breaching its free trade agreement with China, says University of Auckland law professor Jane Kelsey. ‘When … Continue reading
Trans-Pacific Partnership: New Zealand jumping onto a sinking ship
Talks started in Melbourne today for the US, Australia, Peru and Vietnam to join an expanded Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (TPP, currently comprising NZ, Chile, Brunei, and Singapore, known as the P4 Agreement), with November 2011, when the US hosts APEC, as the target to seal the deal. This will be used as the backdoor means to secure a US/NZ Free Trade Agreement. Already the Americans have said that they see this as more than a mere free trade deal but as a vehicle for broader Asia/Pacific economic integration, which has enormous political implications. Alarm bells should be loudly sounding.
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Tagged APEC, fair trade, Free trade, Overseas Investment Act, P4, Trans Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership
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