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PACER | PACER Plus
Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations
Tuvalu's cabinet has agreed to sign the PACER-Plus regional trade agreement following a two-day national consultation last week.
As released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of New Zealand
Dozens of civil society groups in the Pacific have reiterated their criticism of the PACER Plus trade deal, and said it is likely to fail the people of the Pacific.
The PACER Plus Trade Agreement will be signed by 14 Pacific Island countries including Australia and New Zealand on June 14 in Nuku’alofa, Tonga.
One of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s most insightful, if low key, foreign policy initiatives was to work to deepen relations with more than a dozen island nations of Oceania.
But 14-nation deal may be largely symbolic without Fiji and Papua New Guinea.
A new guide allows Pacific Islanders to better understand the impacts of the recently concluded and controversial regional Free Trade Agreement, known as PACER-Plus.
Fiji's trade minister Faiyaz Koya says Fiji will approach Australia after missing out on the conclusion of the PACER Plus talks.
There were promises that the agreement would be for the benefit of the Pacific. But it has been shaped more by the advantages to Australia and New Zealand exporters than the aspirations of the Pacific’s people.
Fiji did not pull out of the PACER Plus trade negotiations. It had been excluded.
