CPTPP

Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership

Pacific trade negotiators face high-wire act in Hawaii
Pacific Rim officials meet in Hawaii this week for talks that could make or break an ambitious trade deal which aims to boost growth and set common standards across a dozen economies ranging from the United States to Brunei.
Secrecy of TPP talks fuels concern about influence of corporate property lobby
Higher costs for needed generic drugs. Longer copyright protections than the global standard. Foreign investors empowered to overrule governments. A more tightly-regulated Internet. Those are just some of the potential pitfalls from any deal that could emerge from the TPP this week.
APWLD: Stop TPP - campaign toolkit
Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development have prepared a toolkit for groups that want to join the struggle against the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Don’t trade away our lives, urge folk with HIV/Aids
As the negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) enter what could be its last round, we as people living with HIV/Aids (PLHIV), urge the Malaysian government not to trade away our lives.
Analysis: 'Shrewd' Canada playing long game as TPP trade talks begin in Maui
The game has changed since trade negotiators from 12 Pacific Rim countries met in Guam last April.
Obama woos Asia with trade deal asserting US Pacific role
Trade officials from 12 governments are gathering in Hawaii next week to attempt to hash out the final details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a potential bonanza for US corporations.
Labour confirms conditional support for TPP
The TPP is bitterly opposed by many on the left who want New Zealand's involvement to be completely scrapped, but after a meeting of the Labour caucus this week the party has announced its support, subject to five conditions.
NZ: Crown defends TPP secrecy at Waitangi Tribunal hearing
Maori individuals and organisations from around the motu have filed claims alleging the trade deal will jeopardise their Treaty rights, while the Crown says it will not.
Corporate lobbying expense jumps as US trade debate rages
Washington lobbying by companies and groups involved in global trade boomed in the past nine months, records show, as Congress debated a landmark trade pact proposed by President Barack Obama, the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Anonymous hacks US Census Bureau over TTIP agreement, leaking employee details online
Anonymous claims responsibility for a cyber-attack conducted against a US government website because of TTIP and TPP talks