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Latest TPP a parade of corporate favours masquerading as free trade
Bad for workers, bad for taxpayers, bad for the environment, bad for Australia. The latest iteration of the Trans-Pacific Partnership is a boon for multinational corporations, writes Patricia Ranald.
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Japan ready to welcome U.S. back to TPP, diplomat says
If President Trump decides to re-enter the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Japan, the biggest economic player in the deal, would welcome him with open arms, a top Japanese diplomat told Axios on Wednesday, before Trump directed his top advisers to take a fresh look at the deal.
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TPP remains largely unchanged in attempt to lure back U.S., Japanese official says
While President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership initially put the deal on life support in January 2017, details released Wednesday revealed that the remaining 11 countries have managed to agree on terms close to the agreement’s original form.
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TPP trade deal advances without United States
Countries in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal have agreed on the core elements to move ahead without the United States, officials said on Saturday, after last minute resistance from Canada raised new doubts about its survival.
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Tokyo signals U-turn on TPP, moves to activate trade pact sans U.S.
In an apparent shift, Tokyo plans to push forward talks for activating the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement without the United States, which withdrew from the multination trade pact in January after President Donald Trump said he would instead pursue bilateral trade deals, a government source said. With the China-excluding pact, inked last year as part of an effort toward high-level trade liberalization, currently adrift after America’s exit, Japan has stepped up to take the lead...
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Trump executive order pulls out of TPP trade deal
President Donald Trump has fulfilled a campaign pledge by signing an executive order to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The trade deal, a linchpin of ex-President Barack Obama's Asia policy, was signed by 12 nations. "Great thing for the American worker what we just did," said Mr Trump as he dumped the pact with a stroke of a pen. He also cut funding for international groups that provide abortions, and froze hiring of some federal workers.
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US announces withdrawal from TPP
Soon after President Donald Trump was sworn in, his administration announced the U.S. withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade pact championed by former President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The White House on Friday also wasted no time in declaring a renegotiation of the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA. Trump is expected to take a more isolationist, protectionist stance, and the international community is concerned that the U.S. will continue to draw inward.
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership Is Dead, and That’s Good for Internet Freedom
US lawmakers from both parties rejected the 12-country deal, including every leading presidential candidate. By Evan Greer.
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TPP’s “Cardiac Arrest”: A Lesson for the Challenges of the Trump Years Ahead
‘Let the movement that stopped the TPP serve as a reminder to the powerful: we are many, and you are few.’ By Andrea Germanos.
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TPP trade deal doomend, former PM Brian Mulroney predicts
Former prime minister Brian Mulroney says the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal is doomed to fail because of hostility in the U.S. Congress and widespread antipathy to trade initiatives in general. Mulroney made the prediction Wednesday when he was asked about Hillary Clinton's opposition to the 12-nation accord, which the Democratic presidential nominee says benefits drug companies and does not address currency manipulation.
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Trouble for the TPP: Business groups’ desperate PR campaign signals possible failure for trade deal
The fact that business groups are spending millions to influence pols to pass TPP shows the pact is in jeopardy. By David Dayen.
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President Obama optimistic Congress will pass TPP this year
“On Friday, deputy press secretary Eric Schultz told reporters that the president is ‘acutely aware of the politics around this. But that’s not going to stop him from getting this done,’ Schultz said.”
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Anti-TPP Amendment Fails at Heated Dem Platform Meeting
When Democratic Party platform committee members arrived at the committee's final session in Orlando, Florida, on Saturday morning, 700,000 signed petitions against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement had been delivered there to meet them. By Nika Knight.
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Google Comes Down On The Wrong Side Of The TPP
This is extremely unfortunate, but not surprising. Google has made some noise sounding supportive of the TPP over the past year or so, and now it's put out a blog post strongly supporting the agreement, and claiming that it's good for intellectual property and the internet. The company is wrong. The statement is right about a big problem on the internet -- the growing restrictions and limitations on the internet in different jurisdictions...
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Pro-TPP Op-Eds Remarkably Similar to Drafts By Foreign Government Lobbyists
Newspapers in California published pro-TPP columns that appear to have been at least partially authored by lobbyists working for the Japanese government. By Lee Fang.
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Don't sign Trans-Pacific trade deal, Nobel winning economist tells Ottawa
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says the Trans-Pacific Partnership may well be the worst trade agreement ever negotiated, and he recommends Canada insist on reworking it. "I think what Canada should do is use its influence to begin a renegotiation of TPP to make it an agreement that advances the interests of Canadian citizens and not just the large corporations," he said in an interview with CBC's The Exchange on Thursday.
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Don’t sign Trans-Pacific trade deal, Nobel winning economist tells Ottawa
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says the Trans-Pacific Partnership may well be the worst trade agreement ever negotiated, and he recommends Canada insist on revisions.
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45 times Clinton pushed the trade bill she now opposes
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, seems reluctant to take a firm position. By Jake Tapper.
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TPP protesters shut down central Auckland as ministers sign controversial deal
All motorway access points are now open after protesters blockaded the Cook St, Wellington St and Hobson St offramps earlier this afternoon. But the Transport Agency said commuters should expect delays and some diversions as they head into or out of the central city. The Auckland Harbour Bridge has remained open throughout the protests and traffic is free flowing. The agency is also advising drivers to be vigilant and aware of their surroundings...
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Here's what the Internet hates about the TPP trade deal
The 'biggest trade deal you've never heard of' is knocking at the door. What will it mean for your Internet use?
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