Penny Macdonald Many trade negotiators in Indonesia for the famous pre-Bogor APEC meetings were excited about the emerging vision of …
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TPP: Facing up to the realities
By Brierley Penn When a panel of business leaders in the US-NZ trade relationship took the stage during the second …
Read More »TPP Just Got More Important – Penny Macdonald
Last week, the WTO had a chance to haul itself out of the dreary post-Doha doldrums in which it has …
Read More »Show Up or Hand the Keys to China? – TPP in 2013
Watching TPP in 2012 was watching a chess game in slow motion. It was clear that a lot of thinking …
Read More »Show me the Money – Penny Macdonald
Having been involved both directly and on the periphery of many trade negotiations over the past couple of decades, it …
Read More »“As transparent a way as possible” – US Head TPP Negotiator
Chief US Negotiator Barbara Weisel confronted charges that the TPP negotiations are not transparent during Wednesday’s TPP press conference. write my paper …
Read More »Smooth integration for Canada and Mexico into TPP negotiating process – Chief NZ Negotiator
Coming into the 15th negotiating round for TPP, attention was focused squarely on the two newest countries to join the …
Read More »Tech sector vital in trade talks
Getting along to the Trans Pacific Partnership stakeholders’ day was rather like being involved in a mad-cap version of speed-dating …
Read More »“TPP has the potential to transform the way we do business” – CEO BusinessNZ
Phil O’Reilly, Chief Executive of New Zealand’s largest business advocacy group – BusinessNZ, came out strongly in support of TPP …
Read More »“We’re not on a burning platform” – TPP not at any cost says Kim Campbell
EMA CEO Kim Campbell says if the TPP deal is?not right, “New Zealand will walk away.” As one of the …
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