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Fast Track saga moves back to Senate
Friday, 19 June 2015, 8:25 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
The latest Obama-Republican Party manoeuvre to secure Fast Track negotiating authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) succeeded with a narrow ten-vote majority in the House of Representatives, but the saga is far from over, according ... More >>
US Desperation on Fast Track Plummets to New Depths
Thursday, 18 June 2015, 1:46 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
US Desperation on Fast Track Plummets to New Depths ‘In the latest desperate attempt to haul Fast Track authority and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) back from the brink, the Republicans in the US House of Representatives have launched ... More >>
Defeat of Fast Track Package
Saturday, 13 June 2015, 11:33 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
Defeat of Fast Track Package Highlights Americans’ Concerns About the Trans-Pacific Partnership – Senate-Passed Bill NOT Adopted More >>
The US Congress has NOT passed the Fast Track Bill
Saturday, 13 June 2015, 11:27 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
Contrary to some local news reports, the US Congress did not pass the Fast track or Trade Promotion Bill last night. More >>
Wikileaks Reveals Attack on Pharmac in ‘Transparency Annex'
Thursday, 11 June 2015, 8:59 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
The Annex on Transparency and Procedural Fairness for Pharmaceutical products and Medical Devices from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations was posted on Wikileaks today ( https://wikileaks.org/tpp/healthcare/ ) More >>
Wikileaks TISA dump exposes NZ’s extreme position
Thursday, 4 June 2015, 9:15 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
In the largest ever leak of documents from a ‘trade’ negotiation, Wikileaks has posted a raft of texts and documents tabled in the Trade in Services Agreement negotiations. The topics range from finance, post and transport to professional services and domestic ... More >>
Time to Put the Deal Out of its Misery
Thursday, 21 May 2015, 8:58 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
‘The reported cancellation of the planned meeting of the twelve trade ministers in Guam, billed as an “endgame” for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), is another nail in the coffin of a deal that has been on life support for several ... More >>
NZ Politicians Join Call to Protect Sovereignty
Sunday, 17 May 2015, 9:25 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
NZ Politicians Join Call to Protect Sovereignty from US Certification in TPPA An open letter signed by current and former political leaders from five countries participating in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement has called for effective moves to protect ... More >>
‘Team Obama’ Regroups on Fast Track, Still Not Deliverable
Thursday, 14 May 2015, 9:52 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
‘After yesterday’s stinging and unexpected defeat for the Obama administration’s attempt to advance Fast Track legislation in the US Senate, Senate leaders have worked up a compromise they think will get them past this blockage’, according to Auckland ... More >>
Senate Vote Dooms Fast Track and Potentially the TPPA
Wednesday, 13 May 2015, 9:26 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
‘The future of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) is now in doubt, following President Obama’s failure to secure Senate support to advance Fast Track authority to a full debate and vote in Congress’, according to Auckland University ... More >>
NZ government’s TPPA secrecy put to the test
Monday, 11 May 2015, 10:04 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
NZ government’s TPPA secrecy put to the test; US says it will release text More >>
Obama’s Fast Track Bill a last-ditch move to rescue TPPA
Friday, 17 April 2015, 11:41 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
‘With less than two months until the window is likely to close for President Obama to get a deal in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) under his watch, the administration has put a bill before Congress to grant him “fast track” authority’, ... More >>
New TPPA Investment Leak Confirms NZ Surrender to US
Thursday, 26 March 2015, 12:24 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
The controversial investment chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) has just been posted by Wikileaks , along with an analysis by Washington-based Public Citizen. Dated 20 January 2015, at the start of the negotiating round in New York, ... More >>
Is the GCSB ‘trade team’ spying on NZ's TPPA ‘partners’?
Tuesday, 24 March 2015, 1:50 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
‘The latest revelations about the GCSB pose a stark question: is the GCSB’s “trade team” spying on governments with whom New Zealand is negotiating international deals, especially the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA)?’, asked University ... More >>
Investment chapter in NZ Korea another handcuff on governent
Monday, 23 March 2015, 11:17 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
Investment chapter in NZ Korea another handcuff on NZ government ‘Cheerleading around the New Zealand Korea free trade deal fails, yet again, to understand that these agreements are not simply about kiwifruit and wine’, warns Auckland University ... More >>
How far does GCSB ‘trade team’ spying go?
Monday, 23 March 2015, 10:10 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
“Revelations this morning that the GCSB was spying on Trade Minister Groser’s opponents for the top job at the world Trade Organization raise the question about other activities of the GCSB’s ‘trade team’. More >>
TPPA secret while EU releases TTIP documents
Thursday, 12 February 2015, 5:00 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
‘Trade minister Tim Groser has repeatedly claimed that negotiations for agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) are never conducted in daylight. That is simply not true.’ More >>
Leaked TISA text exposes US threat to privacy, data security
Thursday, 18 December 2014, 9:24 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
‘The US is demanding that New Zealand and other countries accept sweeping rules that would override privacy protections for digitised personal and other data’, according to Professor Jane Kelsey from the University of Auckland. More >>
South Korea Free Trade Agreement
Monday, 17 November 2014, 9:15 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
‘Coverage of the free trade agreement just concluded with South Korea has been all about agriculture – which is being talked up without anyone being able to see the fine print’, according to Professor Jane Kelsey, It appears the legal scrubbing ... More >>
Did Groser sell out on TPPA with nothing on agriculture?
Wednesday, 12 November 2014, 10:00 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
According to the Wall Street Journal, trade minister Groser says the politicians have ‘informally “closed out” all but two major areas’ of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiations. Those areas are state-owned enterprises ... More >>
