ISDS Case Map
PACER | PACER Plus
Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations
With the signing process now concluded, PACER Plus will take effect 60 days after eight negotiating parties complete their domestic processes and have notified the depositary accordingly.
Papua New Guinea is still realigning internal issues and is not ready to make commitments under Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations Plus (Pacer-Plus) an official says.
The Vanuatu opposition has congratulated the government for its decision not to sign the PACER Plus trade agreement.
A region-wide free trade agreement has been signed in Tonga, with some notable absences.
PACER-Plus will have a serious impact on the ability for Solomon Islanders to determine for themselves their own development future.
The Tonga Public Service Association has called for a delay in the signing of the PACER Plus trade and development deal until the Pacific Islands Forum leaders' summit in September.
The PACER-Plus model of development is based on an increasingly questionable form of economics which naively imagines that national economies will adapt automatically to enhanced price signals from liberalised international markets from which 'distortions' are removed.
The decision by Vanuatu not to sign PACER-Plus sets the benchmark for a how to progress on PACER-Plus ahead of the signing
The Vanuatu government has announced it will not sign the PACER Plus trade and development deal in Tonga.
There's been a call for more time to be given to Pacific civil society organisations and the private sector to assess the proposed regional free trade deal known as PACER Plus.
