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CPTPP
Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
India: Commerce secretary urges industry to adopt global standards fast to counter TPP, TTIP impacts
Commerce secretary Rajeev Kher on Wednesday called upon the Indian industry to upgrade its quality standards to successfully counter the adverse effects of two of the world's biggest free-trade treaties being negotiated by the US.
As China and its workers get wealthier, global manufacturers are looking south for less expensive places to do business. But Cambodia faces labor strikes. The Thai government suffers endless protests. Burma, also known as Myanmar, needs infrastructure updates. As a result, many companies are setting their sights on Vietnam.
Vietnam has released two more high-profile dissidents, making a total of four political prisoners freed over the past three weeks.
With US President Barack Obama’s visit to Tokyo approaching, Japanese and US trade chiefs are set to face off again in Washington as they strive to break a deadlock in talks on a massive free trade zone in the Pacific region.
Japan and the United States will hold working-level talks on the multilateral Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade initiative in Washington from Tuesday to Thursday, the office of the U.S. Trade Representative said Saturday.
Trade Minister Tim Groser is not impressed by Australia's free trade agreement with Japan and hopes it will be ignored by the United States within the Trans Pacific Partnership.
We need to build a movement against the TPPA. This involves breaking through the media blackout and demanding that our governments be transparent about the full implications and realities of the TPPA. One of the ways that we plan to do that in South Korea is through a TPPA international forum of activists and intellectuals from April 16 to the 18.
Failure by Japanese and U.S. negotiators to reach a Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement is making headlines across Japan and raising concerns about the implications for U.S. President Barack Obama’s trip here later this month.
A group composed of top Filipino and American business leaders would help lobby for the Philippines’ inclusion in the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, on top of initiatives to attract more American investors into the country, the Philippine envoy to Washington said.
UNITAID, a global health initiative has warned against bilateral and regional trade agreements, pushed mostly by Europe and the US, as such agreements go well beyond traditional trade concerns and include provisions that force extensive obligations related to intellectual property and investor protection which would restrict access to medicines.
