Trans Pacific Partnership Digest. Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement | Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Republic of Korea's interest in the Trans-Pacific Partnership The Republic of Korea has formally expressed interest in joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Australia and other TPP countries have welcomed its interest and are now undertaking a bilateral process with Korea to discuss its readiness to join. To assist in this process we would welcome further submissions and comments from stakeholders considering Korea's possible involvement in the TPP. Submissions can be made by email to tpp@dfat.gov.au. Please note all submissions will be made publicly available on the DFAT website unless the author specifies otherwise. TPP Meetings 19-24 November 2013, Salt Lake City Chief negotiators for the 12 Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement countries have reported significant progress after six days of intensive meetings in Salt Lake City, Utah.
TPP Leaders' meeting in Bali – October 2013 Trans-Pacific Partnership Leaders Statement Japan welcomed as new member TPP Leaders' statement [PDF 90 KB] TPP Watch. What is TPPA? « TPP Watch. Foreign Control Watchdog 127. TPPA: Are We There Yet? No, And Hopefully Never Will Be by Murray Horton What Star-Struck NZ Journos Didn’t Tell Us About U.S. And TPPA by Jane Kelsey TPPA And The Democratic Deficit by Bill Rosenberg Trade Deal Threatens Alcohol Reform And Democracy by Viola Palmer Earthquake Update by Murray Horton Political Quake Behind Christchurch Rebuild by Fiona Farrell A Risky Business: Or, How Insurance Companies (And Friends) Rule The World by Liz Gordon Food, Crisis, And The Global Economy: Countering NZ’s Corporate Bonding by Dennis Small Don Brash – The Brown Man’s Burden by John Minto Back To The Future: Small Communities Point The Way? Reviews by Jeremy Agar Operation 8 A Film by Errol Wright and Abi King-Jones Ill Fares The Land by Tony Judt A History Of The World Since 9/11 by Dominic Streatfield Biggest Ever Donations To CAFCA & The Organiser Thank You, Ron Resnick by Murray Horton Please Sign Petition Against Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement email Back to Foreign Control Watchdog home page.
New Zealand Not For Sale. TPPA Community Organisation Statement to the Australian Government | AFTINET. [img_assist|nid=244|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=100|height=69]TPPA Campaign: Don’t trade away health, labour, cultural and environmental policies More than thirty Australian unions and community groups today, Sunday 14th March 2010, asked the Trade Minister to safeguard the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, Australian local content in media, regulation of GE food, regulation of foreign investment and industry policies that support local employment in the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiations which start on Monday March 15.
The following is the joint statement: The Australian Government is involved in negotiations for a Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) with the US, Chile, Peru, Brunei, Singapore, New Zealand and Vietnam to develop a multilateral agreement based on the bilateral agreements the US has with five of these countries. This will resurrect all of the issues that were debated in the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement.
Tpp_sub_aftinet_081103. TPPA. The Call To Action « Stop TPP. We are waking up. The fog is lifting. We are sweeping away the lies and secrecy. From July 2 to July 10, the political leaders of the Pacific Rim nations are meeting in San Diego to turn the Pacific Ocean and its peoples into a giant privatized corporate lake characterized by non-union workers, Wal-Mart supply chain feeders, poisoned, landless agricultural laborers, a dying biodiversity, and rising, drowning sea levels. We cannot and will not let this happen.
The TPP meeting is officially referred to as the 13th Round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Talks. The essence of these talks is to privatize natural resources (despite the wishes of the world’s indigenous peoples;) restructure each country’s trade, labor, environmental, and finance laws; and reduce or eradicate social services to the people. Something Is Cooking In San Diego. Download the Call To Action in English Download the Call To Action in Spanish Download the Call To Action in Japanese Demand Transparency.
Derail the TPPA Secret Bullshit Train. President Obama Speaks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. TPPA Forum - Thomas Beagle 1/2. TPPA Forum - Jane Kelsey 1/4. Jane Kelsey On The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement Part II. The TPPA will destroy NZ Industry Murray Horton CAFCA MR NEWS. TPP meets The Meeting Disruptors. TPPA Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (Protest) - Occupy The Media. 7 News Melbourne 5-3-2012 - Peter Mitchell mobbed by protesters. Jane Kelsey - TPP - 21 June 2012. Jane Kelsey. Notes from the Seventh Round of TPPA Negotiations in Vietnam. Last week I attended the seventh round of negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) that took place in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. I was able to meet negotiators from all nine negotiating parties and was able to discuss our concerns regarding the proposed U.S.
IP chapter for the TPPA, including, in particular, access to medicines and the right to health. I was also able to distribute the joint civil society comments previously submitted to the U.S. Government to IP negotiators from Chile, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. On 22 June, I also spoke at an event for negotiators working on intellectual property and telecommunication related provisions, hosted by NZ Rise, a group of New Zealand technology companies, where I presented on the text of the U.S. proposed IP chapter.
Unlike past negotiating rounds, such as the February round in Santiago, Chile, stakeholders were not permitted in the corridors of the negotiating venue. Gillard Announces Trans-Pacific Partnership | Free Trade. TPP. What Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)? The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secretive, multinational trade agreement that threatens to extend restrictive intellectual property (IP) laws across the globe and rewrite international rules on its enforcement. The main problems are two-fold: (1) Intellectual Property Chapter: Leaked draft texts of the agreement show that the IP chapter would have extensive negative ramifications for users’ freedom of expression, right to privacy and due process, and hinder peoples' abilities to innovate. (2) Lack of Transparency: The entire process has shut out multi-stakeholder participation and is shrouded in secrecy.
The twelve nations currently negotiating the TPP are the U.S., Japan, Australia, Peru, Malaysia, Vietnam, New Zealand, Chile, Singapore, Canada, Mexico, and Brunei Darussalam. The TPP Will Rewrite Global Rules on Intellectual Property Enforcement The leaked U.S. Why You Should Care The U.S. What You Can Do. Box. TPPA 'threatens national sovereignty' The next round of secret talks to negotiate details of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement will be held soon in Peru. The agreement has been negotiated in secret since March 2010 by the US and eight other countries; Washington is attempting to force the others to accept it. The TPPA has one aim, to ensure that big American multinationals are able to make more money out of the eight countries - Peru, Malaysia, Australia, Chile, Vietnam, New Zealand, Brunei, and Singapore - which are part of the negotiations.
Despite the secrecy, there are some intrepid souls who are mounting opposition. One of those in the forefront of creating awareness about the perfidious nature of the agreement is Jane Kelsey (pictured below), a professor of law at the University of Auckland and a long-term academic activist in the area of free trade and investment agreements. Professor Kelsey says that the TPPA is the latest and potentially most invasive of these agreements in terms of domestic policy options. What's Actually in the TPP? The blogosphere is abuzz with speculation that the Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) is much worse than SOPA. Is this true? Since the text is currently top secret, there is no way to tell. Of course, that’s part of the problem.
But, after tracking international intellectual property (IP) issues here a PK for a number of years, I can try to make an educated guess about what may be in TPP’s IP chapter and how it may affect you. First some background for those unfamiliar with the TPP. Let’s focus on the IP chapter. Protecting incidental copies. Of course, the provisions of TPP could be much worse. So, we remain in the dark, unable to effectively advocate for your rights.
Protesters Occupy TPPA conference. Anti-TPPA protesters gathered outside the Melbourne Convention Centre on March 1. Photo: Wil Wallace Writer and Occupy Melbourne activist Wil Wallace took part in a March 1 protest against the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, a new free trade agreement currently under negotiation between nine nations, including Australia and the United States. Wallace’s account of the protest is below. It was a cold and wet morning, the sky grey and the sun hardly even up as activists started to flow to the entrance of the Melbourne Convention Centre on March 1. We were there to protest the 11th round of secret negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), conducted by delegates from at least nine countries. The secrecy surrounding the agreement is one of the more worrying aspects of such a pervasive and invasive agreement.
To call the TPPA a free-trade agreement would be to gloss over some of the more nuanced elements of the agreement. From GLW issue 913. Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. Not) The Herald Sun. Govt assures that treaty poses no danger to ICT laws. In the wake of an open letter signed by a large group of lawyers and politicians from New Zealand, the US and other Pacific nations protesting at potential “investor state” provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade is trying to give assurances that there will be no danger to New Zealand’s control over its own laws. The provisions will, on the face of it, allow overseas investors to sue governments if local variations in laws damage the viability of their business. New Zealand ICT businesses and industry bodies are casting nervous eyes particularly on our exclusion of software from patent rights in the Patents Bill, still going through Parliament.
The hard-fought provisions of New Zealand’s Copyright Act pertaining to illegal downloading may also be threatened, critics suggest. TPP secrets: Obama covertly granting more power to multinational corporations. U.S. Trade Position Protecting High Drug Prices Blasted By U.N. Agencies. WASHINGTON -- Two major United Nations organizations warned world leaders on Thursday to avoid restrictive free trade agreements that may threaten public health, amplifying international pressure against President Barack Obama's controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership deal.
A report issued by the U.N. Development Program and the anti-AIDS UNAIDS detailed a host of drug financing policies and intellectual property standards that inflate the price of medications, and urged governments to reject such terms in trade negotiations. By granting pharmaceutical companies long-term monopolies on lifesaving medications, the U.N. groups noted, poor citizens are denied lifesaving treatments.
The Obama administration, in trade talks with eight Pacific nations, is aggressively pursuing the price-protecting standards denounced by the U.N. groups. The new report carefully omits any explicit reference to trade pacts in the works. But the report's release follows a U.N. Sen. The Office of the U.S. U.S. trade proposal would let corporations overrule laws. By Stephen C. WebsterWednesday, June 13, 2012 14:44 EDT The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a forthcoming U.S. trade agreement that looks to solidify a seamless regional economy in the Pacific-rim, would give multinational corporations the power to challenge and even avoid compliance with laws in member countries — including the U.S. — provided a super-national corporate tribunal agrees with their claim.
That’s according to documents leaked this week by the Citizens Trade Campaign, an activist group responsible for leaking TPP proposals on intellectual property last year. The latest leak details a TPP draft chapter on “investments,” which proposes an independent dispute arbitration process that would be empowered to supersede domestic laws or regulatory actions in member states if they are seen as conflicting with the TPP’s framework.
The U.S. Photo: AFP Stephen C. Stephen C. Newly Leaked TPP Investment Chapter Contains Special Rights for Corporations. A leaked draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) investment chapter has been published online by Citizens Trade Campaign, the same coalition that first published TPP proposals from the United States on intellectual property, regulatory coherence and drug formularies in late 2011. Draft texts are said to exist for some 26 separate chapters, none of which have ever been officially released by trade negotiators for public review. “Americans deserve the right to know what U.S. negotiators are proposing in our names,” said Arthur Stamoulis, executive director of Citizens Trade Campaign. ”In the absence of transparency on the part of our government, we have a responsibility to share what information we receive about the TPP with the public.”
During the last round of TPP negotiations held in Addison, Texas in May, CTC delivered over 42,000 petition signatures addressed to U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, urging that TPP negotiating texts be released publicly. “Our hope is that the U.S.