Scoop Coverage: TPPA Deal Reached

Thursday, 8 October 2015, 9:52 am
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January 2016: World Bank: TPP Better For NZ Than US - Auckland Signing Confirmed

New Zealand stands to reap considerably greater benefits from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade and investment agreement than the United States, says a new study of the controversial pact by economists at the World Bank. More>>

ALSO:

• Labour - Ngapuhi showdown over TPP deal
• NZ First - Obama Gets Lukewarm TPP Response But NZ to Sign Regardless - TPPA signing will be a historic farce
• It's Our Future - Don’t Sign the TPPA!
• NZEI Te Riu Roa - TPPA threatens quality public education in New Zealand
• Public Health Association - The TPP: Why rush in where angels fear to tread?
• David Rankin - Ngapuhi "crying wolf" over Marae Ban
• AFTINET - Tans-Pacific trade deal a hard sell for PM Turnbull
• Earlier BusinessDesk - Chile reveals NZ to host TPP signing, Govt tight-lipped
• Professor Jane Kelsey - Ministers to sign TPPA in NZ on 4 February 2016
• Te Wharepora Hou - The TPPA is a death sentence for Indigenous Rights

14/11/15: Massive Turnout Of Kiwis Say ‘TPPA: Don’t Sign’

“The Government has spent the last five weeks since TPPA negotiations concluded on a comprehensive PR mission to tell New Zealanders that this deal is supposedly in their best interests. Today, over ten thousand kiwis nationwide proved that PR mission has failed,” said It’s Our Future spokesperson Edward Miller. More>>

ALSO:

• TV3 Video - TPP protests across the country
• Earlier - TPP: It’s Not Over! 14 November – Nationwide Day of Action! - National Day of Action Against the TPPA

Scoop Audio: Jane Kelsey On The TPP Text

Professor Jane Kelsey held a TPP briefing for media, covering the current timeline and obstacles for US and NZ adoption of the agreement, the status of NZ challenges relating to negotiations, specific issues so far raised by the released text, and plan for full analysis in the New Zealand context. More>>

ALSO:

• Professor Jane Kelsey - Groser avoids principled reconsideration of TPPA OIA
• BusinessDesk - Select committee scrutiny of TPP deal likely after February
• It's Our Future - TPP: It’s Not Over! 14 November – Nationwide Day of Action!
• Out-Link - Jeffrey D. Sachs: TPP is too flawed for a simple ‘yes’ vote - The Boston Globe
• Out-Link - TPP has provision banning requirements to transfer of or access to source code of software | Knowledge Ecology International

November: Text Released - "Government’s Snow Job On TPPA Exposed"

‘As expected, access to the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement reveals major holes in the government’s “fact sheets”’, says Auckland University law professor Jane Kelsey... More>>

• TPP members release text of Agreement
• Out-Link - Text with Annexes

ALSO:

• BusinessDesk - TPP document shows net benefit for countries such as NZ - NZIER - TPP central banks to refrain from currency manipulation
• The Nation - Patrick Gower interviews Labour leader Andrew Little
• NZ Govt - Groser welcomes formal intention of US to sign TPP - New Zealand releases TPP text - TPP members release text of Agreement
• Greens - Trade Minister Also Responsible For Climate Change Issues - TPPA fails to acknowledge climate change - Kiwis must have a say on TPPA
• Reserve Bank - Joint statement on Declaration by TPP Policy Authorities
• Professor Jane Kelsey - Obama’s 90 days start of US politicing to rewrite TPPA - TPPA text finally released – too little, too late!
• Labour - Govt refuses to even try to fix its Korea land sales mistake
• It's Our Future - TPPA Exposed: Don’t Sign - TPPA: Don’t Sign! 14 November Day of Action
• InternetNZ - First official TPP text confirms IP concerns
• Business NZ - TPP risks overstated
• Employers And Manufacturers Association - TPP takes next step - EMA
• Tertiary Education Union - TEU honours courage of Jane Kelsey and Huirangi Waikerepuru
• NZ Taxpayers' Union - Law Lecturer Gets $600K Marsden Grant
• Doctors for Healthy Trade - TPP: Ambiguous provision for medicines a major worry for NZ
• Medicines NZ - Trans-Pacific Partnership: A Mixed Bag for NZ Patients
• Binoy Kampmark - A Trade Deal of Denial: Omissions and Sins in the TPP
• Out-Link - Release of the Full TPP Text After Five Years of Secrecy Confirms Threats to Users’ Rights | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• AFTINET - TPP text demonstrates corporate rights over citizens
• OpenMedia - TPP text threatens Internet freedom: will Trudeau go along?
• TV3 Video - The next chapter of the TPP - Andrew Little to decide on TPPA stance - Scrutiny of TPPA details to begin
• October Scoop Full Coverage - TPPA Deal Reached

Court Sends Back TPP Decision: 'Blanket Approach' In Turning Down OIA Not Lawful

"When the minister refused Professor Kelsey’s request, neither he nor his officials assessed each piece of information requested against the criteria in the act for withholding official information," Collins said in his judgment.

"Instead, the minister adopted a 'blanket approach' to the request based upon his knowledge of the categories of documents requested by Professor Kelsey. I have concluded this approach did not comply with the act." More>>

ALSO:

• NZ High Court - Judgment: Kelsey v Minister of Trade - TPP OIA Decisions Quashed
• Parliament Today - Government Questioned Over TPPA
• Professor Jane Kelsey - Court finds against Trade Minister on TPPA Secrecy
• Greens - High Court finds Govt in breach of OIA
• Office of the Ombudsman - Chief Ombudsman’s statement on High Court TPPA Decision
• Greenpeace NZ - Groser Loses TPP High Court Secrecy Fight
• Association of Salaried Medical Specialists - High Court TPPA ruling sends strong message to Government
• NZ Taxpayers' Union - Taxpayers' Union Tip Cap to Jane Kelsey
• Scoop Full Coverage - TPPA Deal Reached

Prime Minister John Key commented on the previous week's signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. He stressed that it had taken seven years to reach this point and he congratulated Minister of Trade Tim Grosser on his efforts representing New Zealand at the negotiations. Key also elaborated on what his Government saw as the major benefits of the TPP: $259 million a year in tariff savings and the possibility of expansion in new and existing trade markets. More>>

ALSO:

• BusinessDesk - Further land sale restrictions possible under TPP
• Professor Jane Kelsey - Government's credibility in tatters
• The Nation - Lisa Owen interviews Trade Minister Tim Groser - Lisa Owen talks to CTU president Helen Kelly
• TVNZ - Q+A: Trade Minister Tim Groser on the TPP - Labour not ruling out TPP support
• Labour - Four year funding freeze for OIO causes delays
• NZ First - Groser on a Different Planet - Groser Blind to TPPA Hit on Housing
• ACT - Free Press October 12 2015
• Julian Ang - TPPA – NZIER article and tariff reductions
• GE Free NZ - NZ's Marketing Difference for Exports Jeopardised by TPPA
• Rotorua-Te Arawa TPPA Action Group - Rotorua (New Zealand) hosts TPPA information event
• TV3 Video - Andrew Little playing 'elaborate word game' on TPPA - Gower
• Out-Link - Second thoughts on the TPPA | The Dim-Post

Wikileaks: TPP Intellectual Property Rights Chapter Released

The IP Chapter of the TPP has perhaps been the most controversial chapter due to its wide-ranging effects on internet services, medicines, publishers, civil liberties and biological patents.

“If TPP is ratified, people in the Pacific-Rim countries would have to live by the rules in this leaked text,” said Peter Maybarduk, Public Citizen’s Global Access to Medicines Program Director. “The new monopoly rights for big pharmaceutical firms would compromise access to medicines in TPP countries. The TPP would cost lives.”

Hundreds of representatives from large corporations had direct access to the negotiations whereas elected officials had limited or no access. More>>

ALSO:

• Professor Jane Kelsey - Final TPPA intellectual property chapter leaked - Farce of TPPA secrecy must end
• Labour - Govt must clarify if software patents are in TPP
• Binoy Kampmark - What We Always Knew: The TPP and Intellectual Property
• OpenMedia - WikiLeaks release of TPP Intellectual Property chapter
• AFTINET - TPP leak shows devil in the detail
• ActionActors - ActionActors refutes producers statement
• Out-Link - Wikileaks releases final IP chapter of TPP | Morning Report | Radio New Zealand
• Out-Link - The Final Leaked TPP Text is All That We Feared | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Out-Link - TPP requires countries to destroy security-testing tools (and your laptop) / Boing Boing

Image Out-Link - MFAT: Trans-Pacific Partnership

Gordon Campbell: On The TPP Deal Reached In Atlanta

Yes, the TPP has helped to knock a few points off the tariffs facing our exporters. Yet some of those alleged dollar gains may well have been made regardless over time – and without the negative baggage of the concessions in the non-trade areas (intellectual property, copyright extensions, investor-state dispute mechanisms etc) that the TPP deal also brings in its wake.

Over the period from now until 2030, even the rosier projections for New Zealand see the TPP adding only about 1% per annum to this country’s GDP.

Public Summaries:

• United States Trade Representative - Summary of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
• United States Trade Representative - TPP Ministers’ Statement, Press Conference Video
• NZ Govt - Fact sheets - TPP Q&A (PDF)

ALSO:

• BusinessDesk - Labour says jury's out on supporting TPP - MARKET CLOSE: NZ shares rise on TPP; SkyCity gains - TPP deal gives limited win for NZ dairy - Business lobbies, wine growers, meat sector welcome TPP - Fonterra 'very disappointed' with limited TPP dairy deal
• Gordon Campbell - Gordon Campbell on the TPP fallout
• Professor Jane Kelsey - Renewed Official Information Act requests for TPPA analyses - Continued imbalance of TPPA information indefensible - National government betrays NZers in TPPA deal
• Binoy Kampmark - Imperilled by Unfree Trade
• TV3 Video - TPPA: What do we get and what are we giving? - TPPA negotiations 'absolutely brutal' - Groser - TPPA: What you need to know - TPPA response swift, varying - TPPA countries reach deal - Crunch time for TPPA deal
• Out-Link - First thoughts on the TPPA | The Dim-Post
• Out-Link - Rob Salmond: TPP, eh? • Public Address
• Out-Link - The just-completed Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, explained - Vox
• Out-Link - A TPP Deal Is Finally Reached, but Don’t Assume It Will Pass Congress | The Nation
• Pundit.co.nz Out-Link - Josie Pagani: Success - everyone equally unhappy - Wayne Mapp: The TPP - there's a lot to like - Andrew Geddis: Of TPP's, ISDS's and the Constitution
• Out-Link - The battle for the IP chapter | Kiwiblog
• Hillary Clinton - Hillary Clinton Statement on Trans-Pacific Partnership

Parliament Reaction: PM Welcomes TPP As NZ’s Biggest Trade Deal

Prime Minister John Key has welcomed the successful conclusion of negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement – New Zealand’s biggest free trade agreement. More>>

(Cartoon by Dave Wolland)

ALSO:

• NZ Govt - Further TPP information released - TPP delivers significant benefits for NZ - PM welcomes TPP as NZ’s biggest trade deal - TPP a win for regional New Zealand - TPP Q&A (PDF)
• Labour - TPP may affect Maori land interests - New Zealand gave away right to protect houses and land - Groser playing games over Pharmac fallout - TPPA fails dairy and foreign buyers tests - New Zealand has missed the bus on TPP
• Greens - Bad TPPA deal will cost New Zealanders
• NZ First - Deal is About Corporate Influence Not Trade - New Bill to Stop Secrecy of Future Deals like TPPA - TPPA Deal Not What Government Promised - Wood processing a prime area of future potential - Speech: Adult Illiteracy Costs Us
• ACT - ACT welcomes important progress for our trading nation
• Peter Dunne - Dunne Speaks: Trade is part of our economic DNA

It's Our Future: Council Calls For Transparency And Consultation On TPPA Today [8/10/15] the Auckland Council’s Regional Strategy and Policy Committee passed a resolution on the recently concluded Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). The resolution calls on the government to release the final agreed text of the agreement and consult before further decisions are taken. More>>

ALSO:

• Auckland City Council - TPPA, Environment and Arts the key focus at today’s meeting
• Auckland Ratepayers' Alliance - Councillors shouldn't entertain TPPA stunt
• Affordable Auckland - Why can't they just do their jobs?

Business reaction:

• Fonterra - Fonterra Chairman Acknowledges Conclusion of TPP Agreement
• Dairy Companies Association of NZ - TPP Concludes After Marathon Negotiating Effort
• ExportNZ - ExportNZ Welcomes TPP deal
• Business NZ - BusinessNZ says TPP a good deal for New Zealand
• Employers And Manufacturers Association - TPP Outstanding Achievement says EMA
• NZ Winegrowers - Wine industry welcomes Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement
• Wellington Chamber Of Commerce - TPP deal welcomed by Chamber
• Meat Industry Association - The MIA welcomes the conclusion of the TPP
• Zespri - Win for kiwifruit industry in TPP Agreement
• Beef And Lamb NZ - TPP good news for sheep and beef farmers
• Horticulture NZ - Good Result Gives Horticulture Room to Grow
• NZ Kiwifruit Growers - Trans Pacific Partnership Another Win for Kiwifruit Growers
• Seafood NZ - Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement
• Medicines NZ - Medicines New Zealand Statement on the TPP
• NZ Shippers Council - Shippers’ Council congratulates Government on TPP outcome
• American Chamber of Commerce - AmCham welcomes Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement
• The Kiwifruit Claim - Kiwifuit Claim Urges Zespri To Back Growers
• Latin America NZ Business Council - Conclusion of TPP negotiations
• Hawke's Bay Winegrowers - Three Cheers for Wine Exports in TPP Agreement
• Wood Council of NZ - TPPA may open doors for processed wood products

Other Sectors:

• It's Our Future - No more excuses, release the text NOW
• Internet NZ - TPPA means copyright law reform needed
• Greenpeace NZ - Greenpeace Response to TPP Deal Announcement
• NZTEU - Secret trade agreement bad for education and democracy
• FOMA - FOMA Welcomes New Trade Opportunities through TPPA
• FIRST Union - TPPA a “betrayal” – union
• NZMA - Independent health assessment still needed on TPPA
• Action On Smoking And Health - TPPA Tobacco Carve-out Good News for New Zealand Health
• Grey Power NZ - TPPA - "catious optimisim"
• LIANZA - LIANZA on the TPPA
• AFTINET - Secret TPP deal lacks detail on medicines
• OpenMedia - TPP posing serious threat to global internet users
• ITUC - Pacific Trade Agreement a Recipe for Corporate Greed

Gordon Campbell: On The TPP Countdown, And Mary Margaret O’Hara

To date, the Key government has been unwilling to share any information about this TPP deal until it is too late for outraged public opinion to affect the outcome... the disclosure process is likely to consist of a similarly skewed and careful exercise in spin. More>>

ALSO:

• Scoop Business - Atlanta TPP talks head into the night
• TVNZ - Q+A - PM on TPP: “We’ve never ever been sued.”
• The Nation - PM John Key: TPP, Aussie Deportations, Syria
• Professor Jane Kelsey - TPPA ministerial extended another day - Groser’s ‘ugly compromise’ in TPPA could cost New Zealanders - Helen Clark needs to heed her own UN advisers on TPPA
• Labour - Are you fighting for our health, Mr Key?
• NZ First - Clark urges TPPA signing but we've had other poor deals - Peters: Circus or Soap Opera and Foreseen Circumstances
• Association of Salaried Medical Specialists - Patients deserve better than health as trade deal dead rat - Power of balance poised to tip even further
• Doctors for Healthy Trade - Will NZ rely on Peru’s position on Medicines in the TPPA? - Helen Clark on TPP
• Arbitrators' and Mediators' Institute of NZ - Investor State Arbitration and the TPPA
• AFTINET - TPP talks: Robb should reject “death sentence” deal - TPP talks delayed again
• TV3 Video - TPPA negotiations 'close' to completion - Key: TPP progressing towards something good

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