PACER
Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations
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12-Sep-2017 Radio NZ
Vanuatu signs up to PACER Plus
Vanuatu has signed up to PACER Plus trade deal in Samoa - three months after most regional countries agreed to the trade agreement.
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15-Aug-2017 Fiji Sun
Koya: Talks with PNG minister Pato fruitful
The Minister for Industry, Trade, Tourism, Lands and Mineral Resources said the meeting involved discussions on the ‘way forward’ with the Melanesian Spearhead Group Trade Agreement.
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22-Jun-2017 ICTSD
PACER Plus countries prepare for trade deal ratification
With the signing process now concluded, PACER Plus will take effect 60 days after eight negotiating parties complete their domestic processes and have notified the depositary accordingly.
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21-Jun-2017 PNG Industry News
PNG firmly out of Pacer-Plus
Papua New Guinea is still realigning internal issues and is not ready to make commitments under Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations Plus (Pacer-Plus) an official says.
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15-Jun-2017 Radio NZ
Vanuatu parliament unites in opposition to PACER Plus
The Vanuatu opposition has congratulated the government for its decision not to sign the PACER Plus trade agreement.
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14-Jun-2017 Radio NZ
PACER-Plus trade deal signed in Tonga
A region-wide free trade agreement has been signed in Tonga, with some notable absences.
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13-Jun-2017 Asia Pacific Report
Joey Tau: Can the MSG bloc walk out on the PACER-Plus trade deal?
PACER-Plus will have a serious impact on the ability for Solomon Islanders to determine for themselves their own development future.
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13-Jun-2017 Radio NZ
Tonga’s PSA keen to delay signing Pacer Plus deal
The Tonga Public Service Association has called for a delay in the signing of the PACER Plus trade and development deal until the Pacific Islands Forum leaders’ summit in September.
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12-Jun-2017 Matangi Tonga
PACER-Plus: Disappointment and lost opportunity
The PACER-Plus model of development is based on an increasingly questionable form of economics which naively imagines that national economies will adapt automatically to enhanced price signals from liberalised international markets from which ’distortions’ are removed.
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12-Jun-2017 Fiji Times
Vanuatu sets PACER-Plus benchmark
The decision by Vanuatu not to sign PACER-Plus sets the benchmark for a how to progress on PACER-Plus ahead of the signing
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9-Jun-2017 Radio NZ
Vanuatu not ready to sign PACER Plus
The Vanuatu government has announced it will not sign the PACER Plus trade and development deal in Tonga.
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6-Jun-2017 Radio NZ
Call for more time to assess Pacific trade deal
There’s been a call for more time to be given to Pacific civil society organisations and the private sector to assess the proposed regional free trade deal known as PACER Plus.
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1-Jun-2017 Radio NZ
Tuvalu to sign regional trade deal
Tuvalu’s cabinet has agreed to sign the PACER-Plus regional trade agreement following a two-day national consultation last week.
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31-May-2017 Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, New Zealand
PACER-plus consolidated legal text
As released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of New Zealand
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30-May-2017 Radio NZ
Pacific NGOs maintain opposition to PACER Plus
Dozens of civil society groups in the Pacific have reiterated their criticism of the PACER Plus trade deal, and said it is likely to fail the people of the Pacific.
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23-May-2017 Matangi
PACER Plus signing on 14 June
The PACER Plus Trade Agreement will be signed by 14 Pacific Island countries including Australia and New Zealand on June 14 in Nuku’alofa, Tonga.
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9-May-2017 Sunday Guardian Live
Aus, NZ trying to corner India in Oceania
One of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s most insightful, if low key, foreign policy initiatives was to work to deepen relations with more than a dozen island nations of Oceania.
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5-May-2017 Nikkei
New Pacific trade pact goes against the protectionist tide
But 14-nation deal may be largely symbolic without Fiji and Papua New Guinea.
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2-May-2017 Fiji Times
Guide to PACER-Plus
A new guide allows Pacific Islanders to better understand the impacts of the recently concluded and controversial regional Free Trade Agreement, known as PACER-Plus.
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27-Apr-2017 Radio NZ
Fiji wants to renegotiate PACER Plus
Fiji’s trade minister Faiyaz Koya says Fiji will approach Australia after missing out on the conclusion of the PACER Plus talks.
