Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
5-Feb-2014
Popular Resistance
Farmers, union, environmental and women’s activists gathered in Mexico City last week to take stock of the lessons from NAFTA and plan strategies to confront the next big threat: the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP).
5-Feb-2014
Shanghai Daily
Government claims that New Zealand will see an economic gain of 4.5 billion US dollars from the proposed 12-nation Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal are "doubtful," according to an academic review released Wednesday.
5-Feb-2014
WSJ
The TPP is designed "to create a high-standard global trade agreement that addresses a bunch of issues that have not been addressed before in our trade agreements," US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker said, adding, "And frankly, if we don't do it, someone else is going to set the standard."
5-Feb-2014
Acronym TV
An interview with Kevin Zeese, organizer with Flush the TPP and Popular Resistance.
3-Feb-2014
Business World
"The Philippines should not just enter into a deal out of fear of being left out," Alfredo M. Yao, president of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, says.
3-Feb-2014
Waging Nonviolence
When there are documents that the public has a right to know about, we have a right to go take them, writes Daniel Hunter
31-Jan-2014
PR Watch
John Kinsman, the author of this op-ed first published in The Capital Times in 2012, passed away on January 20, 2014. He was a leader of the global food sovereignty movement who many of us knew.
29-Jan-2014
Officials of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) will hold talks with their US counterparts within the next two months in a last-minute bid to join discussions for a free-trade area (FTA) in the Asia-Pacific region.
27-Jan-2014
Kyodo
Japan and the US have agreed to continue to work for an early conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations, the Japanese trade minister said after meeting Saturday with the US trade chief on the fringes of the economic forum in Davos, Switzerland