Ratifying the TPPA makes no sense
The recent high-fiving between the government and agricultural exporters over ratification of the TPPA (Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement) is empty gesture politics in an election year. Read More
Tag: Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
Bad Idea: TPPA without the USA
News that Prime Minister Bill English is expected to try and resuscitate the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) when he meets with his Australian counterpart Malcolm Read More
Re-think trade deals for a fair and clean economy
Donald Trump didn’t kill the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), popular opinion did. Trump – and Hillary Clinton for that matter – wouldn’t have campaigned against Read More
RCEP trade deal risks repeating TPPA mistakes
The lesson from the demise of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) should have been that it is time to re-think this type of so-called trade Read More
The TPPA is dead – what next for trade?
Top of the “to do” list for incoming President Trump (it will take a while to get used to writing that) are changes to trade Read More
Jumping the TPPA gun could backfire
Yesterday in Parliament I asked the Prime Minister if he is planning to change our laws to implement the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), even before Read More
TPPA people power protests
The protests against the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) yesterday were an energetic show of people power. It was great to see such a big Read More
Coromandel rallies against the TPPA
On Wednesday, John Key visited the southern Coromandel area with local National MP Scott Simpson and was challenged by citizens who spontaneously organised protests Read More
Patents, Pacific Partnerships, and (com)puters
Have a read of this interesting opinion piece on NBR about the ramifications the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) will have for software patents in Read More
Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: Release the text
The governments of nine countries are currently negotiating in secret for a far-reaching agreement called the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). John Key’s Government doesn’t want us to see the NZ position or any of the text until it is signed and sealed and cannot be changed.