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Shock trade-offs by TPPA ministers in Singapore
Wednesday, 11 December 2013, 8:59 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
The four-day ministerial summit on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement concluded late yesterday in Singapore. ‘In one sense, they failed to deliver on their “end game” of a deal by December 2013’, said Professor Kelsey, who has been in Singapore ... More >>
Groser sells out - not even for 30 pieces of silver
Tuesday, 10 December 2013, 6:46 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
‘Forget all the glib promises that the National Government will protect the “fundamentals” of Pharmac and defend of our public health system in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations’ said Professor Jane Kelsey who is monitoring the TPPA trade ministers’ ... More >>
Explanation of NZ's Treaty Making Process
Tuesday, 10 December 2013, 3:08 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
In light of the reiteration of the incorrect assertion that Parliament that would ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement by Stephen Jacobi on Morning Report today, I am reissuing the following explanation and associated press release from ... More >>
Crunch decisions on medicines in TPPA today or tomorrow
Monday, 9 December 2013, 6:53 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
‘Enormous pressure on the non-US ministers in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations is likely to see some governments cave in this afternoon or tomorrow morning on medicines and copyright’, according to Professor Jane Kelsey in Singapore. More >>
TPPA: New Huffington Post leaks expose major divisions
Monday, 9 December 2013, 2:21 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
Two internal documents from a country inside the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations have been leaked to Huffington Post and published this morning under the headline ‘Obama Faces Backlash Over New Corporate Political Powers In Secret ... More >>
Heavy-handed tactics in TPPA talks aim to isolate dissenters
Sunday, 8 December 2013, 10:43 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
‘In an outrageous practice borrowed from the WTO, known as “green room” negotiations, small groups of Ministers are meeting to broker compromise texts to put to the rest of the parties negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement’ More >>
NZ shaping up as broker to get the US over the TPPA line
Friday, 6 December 2013, 3:57 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
‘On the eve of the trade ministers’ meeting in Singapore to decide the terms for a final deal on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, there are signs that New Zealand may become the broker for a deal that the US finds acceptable’, according ... More >>
Salt Lake TPPA negotiations end with growing desperation
Tuesday, 26 November 2013, 11:29 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
‘Claims that trade ministers are close to a final deal on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) seem incredible, given the long list of matters that remain unresolved after a week of intense negotiations in Salt Lake City’, according to Professor ... More >>
US bullying on intellectual property and health in TPPA talk
Sunday, 24 November 2013, 2:32 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
‘The US has adopted a strategy of exhaustion in its bullying of negotiators on the crucial intellectual property chapter to force countries to trade away health in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations in Salt Lake City’ More >>
Outrageous US bullying on IP and Health at TPPA Talks
Sunday, 24 November 2013, 8:50 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
‘The US has adopted a strategy of exhaustion in its bullying of negotiators on the crucial intellectual property chapter to force countries to trade away health in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations in Salt Lake City’, according ... More >>
TPPA: Leaked IP text -US Congress revolts against Fast Track
Thursday, 14 November 2013, 9:02 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
‘Two king hits in one day for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is a bad omen for chief negotiators and hundreds of officials as they head into a crunch meeting in Salt Lake City next week’, according to Auckland University Professor Jane Kelsey, ... More >>
Crunch Time for TPPA at Salt Lake City Meeting 19-24 November
Monday, 11 November 2013, 9:24 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
‘Every ounce of political pressure will come on the negotiators during a special round of talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) that are scheduled for Salt Lake City from 19 to 24 November’, according to Professor Jane Kelsey ... More >>
SA quits investment treaties, NZ wants to sign more...
Thursday, 7 November 2013, 9:00 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
Chorus’s US shareholders could easily use the investment rules proposed under the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) to sue the government for hundreds of millions of dollars if the Commerce Commission’s ruling on broadband pricing stands ... More >>
Obama cancels APEC trip, TPPA trade-off talks torpedoed
Friday, 4 October 2013, 4:45 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
‘The US budget standoff has thrown the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement into complete disarray and surely puts paid to any claims they can finish the deal by the end of the year’, said University of Auckland law professor Jane Kelsey. More >>
Groser and Key must reject ongoing US assault on Pharmac
Thursday, 12 September 2013, 12:22 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
‘There are further reports that the US informally proposed a two-tier approach to pharmaceuticals during the recent Brunei round’, said Professor Jane Kelsey, referring to an article in Inside US Trade published yesterday. More >>
Is New Zealand About to Get Screwed on TPPA and Medicines?
Tuesday, 3 September 2013, 10:23 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
‘The art form of saying nothing was to the fore again in the official statement from chief negotiators at the end of the latest - and supposedly last - round of Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement talks in Brunei’, said Professor Jane Kelsey, ... More >>
National's smokefree commitment tested by Malaysia on TPPA
Friday, 30 August 2013, 10:40 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
‘The Malaysian government has tackled head-on the threat that the TPPA poses to smokefree policies by proposing a total carveout of tobacco control policies from the agreement’, according to Professor Jane Kelsey, who is currently in Brunei. More >>
US terms for Japan’s entry holds Japan and TPPA to ransom
Thursday, 6 June 2013, 6:39 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
US terms for Japan’s entry holds Japan and TPPA to ransom ‘The bon homie bound to be shown between Japan’s Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and his New Zealand counterparts this week should not disguise the realities of the Trans-Pacific Partnership ... More >>
Chile’s ex-chief negotiator drops a bombshell on TPPA
Sunday, 2 June 2013, 5:06 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
2 June 2013 For immediate release Chile’s ex-chief negotiator drops a bombshell on TPPA More >>
TPPA could bypass cap on liability for tighter gambling laws
Monday, 13 May 2013, 4:38 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
“In theory, the New Zealand Parliament has the power to make and unmake our gambling laws. In practice, the backroom contract between the National government and Sky City could stymie effective regulation of gaming for the next 35 years”, according ... More >>
