Werewolf Issue 59: TPP - Obsolete, At Birth
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Scoop Coverage: TPP Signing In Auckland, And After |
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Press releases, reaction and commentary relating to the signing ceremony for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Deal in Auckland on 4 February 2016.
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April: Government Seeking To Stymie Report On TPPA
Jane Kelsey: "Why the government suddenly announced it is fast-tracking the report date for the select committee considering the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) from the end of May to 4 May is now clear. It gives the Waitangi Tribunal three rather than seven weeks to produce its urgent report..." More>>
More Cuts To NZ Consultation: Ratification In US Heading For 'Lame Duck' Session
US lawmakers and senior officials are leaning towards the likelihood of the Trans-Pacific Partnership achieving ratification in Washington DC during the so-called "lame-duck" session of Congress expected later this year, Prime Minister John Key says. More>>
March: Govt Majority On Select Committee Refuses To Extend Submissions
National’s majority on the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade committee has refused to extend the deadline for submissions on the 30-chapter Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) past the 15 sitting days set out in the Cabinet manual, despite provision to do so if the government agrees, reports Auckland University law professor Jane Kelsey. More>>
Submission Schedule Not 'Flexible': Democratic Deficit On The TPPA Continues
With nine working days left before the deadline for submissions on the TPPA inquiry, these promises have not been fulfilled... It is inconsistent that the deadline for submissions currently falls before most of the government’s planned information sessions on the TPPA. More>>
Werewolf Issue 59: TPP - Obsolete, At Birth
What are we to make of the fact that one of the central elements of the TPP – the “investor state dispute settlement” (ISDS) mechanisms – is already obsolete? In November, barely two months after the TPP deal was completed, the European Trade Commission formally presented to the US its proposal to scrap the existing ISDS system, and to replace it in all future trade deals with an Investment Court System. More>>
Protests Close Roads: TPP Signed In Auckland
“TPP was signed by Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States and Viet Nam.
“In addition to hosting signature, New Zealand will be the Depositary for TPP. This means we take responsibility for some administrative functions,” says Mr McClay.
Following signature, the Government will submit the final text of TPP and the National Interest Analysis to Parliament. The legislative changes to implement TPP will then go through normal policy and Parliamentary procedures.
“Signature marks the end of the negotiating process. The text of TPP is agreed, but not yet legally binding.” More>>
Protest: Kiwis Reject The TPPA “It was a huge march and we were thrilled that so many Kiwis came out, especially since it is a weekday, during a bus strike, and after government scare-mongering about law and order.” The marchers today weren’t a small segment of New Zealand society. They are a majority – public opinion polling says that most Kiwis oppose the TPPA. More>>
Gordon
Campbell: The Treaty/TPP Overlap
...The final outrage is that the Key government has chosen to sign away sovereign rights – whether it be via ISDS provisions or over IP patents, copyright terms etc etc – on the eve of the Treaty of Waitangi celebrations, and at the SkyCity casino in Auckland, which is the site of another of this government’s dubious deals.
This piling up of provocations cannot be accidental. Quite cynically, the Key government appears to have chosen to deliberately link opposition to the TPP with Maori radicalism. More>>
PM's Post-Cabinet Press Conference: Waitangi
And TPP
Update - Key invited to attend, speak
at marae. Prime Minister John Key today said his office
has received an invitation for him to visit the Lower Marae
on Waitangi Day, but was waiting for a meeting of the Te Tii
Marae Trustees. More>>
Olex Sydor: Photos - TPP Rally At Government
House
Photos from Saturday's Wellington rally to
hand over a petition to the Governor-General on the TPP at
Government House. More>>
TPP Signing: Implicit Police Threat
Appalling
Reports of the police visiting known
activists to ask their plans for the TPPA show appalling
judgement and are a poor attempt at a chilling effect, said
the Green Party... “It carries with it an implicit threat
and New Zealanders have the right to speak out and have
their voices heard." More>>
Gordon Campbell: On Bribing The Saudis,
Investor-State Disputes, And Oscar Racism)
Does
this sound familiar? In the mid 2000s, New Zealand wanted to
pursue a humanitarian policy, on live sheep exports. This
happened to offend a Saudi foreign investor, who eventually
threatened legal action against it… More>>
PM's Press Conference 26/1/16: TPP, Waitangi,
Sheep
Other commitments mean Prime Minister John
Key's first post-cabinet press conference for the year would
be a short one. Before explaining this, Key showed willing
by rattling through his summary of Cabinet discussions like
a man whose goal was to get through all the words as quickly
as possible. More>>
TPP Text Released: Gordon Campbell On Why The
TPP Is Something We Shouldn’t Sign
So the Trans
Pacific Partnership is due to be signed next week. This
means very little, beyond a confirmation that the text being
signed was indeed the text that was negotiated… the
research evidence is accumulating that the alleged benefits
from the TPP are being wildly over-stated. More>>
TPP Analysis: The Economics Of The
TPPA
“It is striking how little the TPPA will
deliver. Without the TPPA, our GDP will grow by 47% by 2030
at current growth rates. The TPPA would add only 0.9%...
Even that small benefit is a gross exaggeration." More>>
TPP Analysis: Government Fails To Meet
Obligations To Maori
‘Maori have long-standing
concerns about law and policy relating to issues such as
traditional knowledge, biodiversity and environmental
management’, says Carwyn Jones, who wrote that section of
the paper. ‘The TPPA will hamper the ability of future
governments to develop Treaty of Waitangi-consistent law and
policy in these areas.’ More>>
Auckland Signing Confirmed: World Bank: TPP
Better For NZ Than US
New Zealand stands to reap
considerably greater benefits from the Trans-Pacific
Partnership trade and investment agreement than the United
States, says a new study of the controversial pact by
economists at the World Bank. More>>
14/11/15: Massive Turnout Of Kiwis Say
‘TPPA: Don’t Sign’
“The Government has
spent the last five weeks since TPPA negotiations concluded
on a comprehensive PR mission to tell New Zealanders that
this deal is supposedly in their best interests. Today, over
ten thousand kiwis nationwide proved that PR mission has
failed,” said It’s Our Future spokesperson Edward
Miller. More>>
Scoop Audio: Jane Kelsey On The TPP
Text
Professor Jane Kelsey held a TPP briefing for
media, covering the current timeline and obstacles for US
and NZ adoption of the agreement, the status of NZ
challenges relating to negotiations, specific issues so far
raised by the released text, and plan for full analysis in
the New Zealand context. More>>
November: Text Released - "Government’s Snow
Job On TPPA Exposed"
‘As expected, access to the
text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement reveals
major holes in the government’s “fact sheets”’, says
Auckland University law professor Jane Kelsey... More>>
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