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Business leaders call for Japan’s participation in TPP talks
8-Oct-2011
Japanese and U.S. business leaders on Friday jointly urged the government to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade talks soon, as the nine countries involved in the multilateral free trade framework aim to reach agreement on a broad outline in November.
Pacific negotiators seeking trade accord to target labor rights, US Says
16-Sep-2011 Bloomberg
The Pacific partnership, if successful, may eventually expand to include Japan and China, Calman Cohen, president of the Washington-based Emergency Committee for American Trade, a business organization whose members include Citigroup, General Motors and Target, said.
US seeks to allay drug access concerns in TPP talks
14-Sep-2011 Reuters
The Obama administration on Monday sought to allay concerns that the U.S. push for stronger drug patent protections in a Transpacific trade deal would raise the cost of life-saving treatments out of the reach of the region’s poor people.
The false promise of Obama’s trade deals
9-Sep-2011 The Guardian
US proposals for the TPP hardly break from the Nafta mold, and many weaken or eliminate the few important advances we’ve seen since Nafta in US trade proposals, write Kevin Gallagher and Timothy Wise in The Guardian
Labor Day protestors demand jobs and fair trade deals
9-Sep-2011 People’s World
Jim Robinson, president of the United Steelworkers of America District 7, joined his fellow steelworkers and 1,000 others to protest in Chicago on Labor Day against a new free trade agreement being negotiated for the Pacific Rim countries.
The Activist Beat
7-Sep-2011 Uprising Radio
On Labor Day, 500 activists took to the streets of Chicago to speak out against the US free trade agreement with Pacific Rim countries, including Peru, Chile, and Vietnam. Advocates from labor, environmental, public health, and consumer rights groups took part to demand a “Fair Deal or No Deal.”
Labour Day Rally in Chicago Kicks Off Challenge to TPPA Negotiating Round
7-Sep-2011
A rally of around a thousand unionists, HIV-Aids activists and social justice campaigners in Chicago sent a clear message to negotiators the day before the latest round of Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations began in Chicago.
Labor unions rally at Grant Park
6-Sep-2011 ABC
Chicago labor unions say a looming free trade agreement, the "Trans Pacific Partnership," will lead to the loss of good-paying US jobs. They compare it to NAFTA.
Pro-labor activists in Chicago protest Trans-Pacific Partnership pact
6-Sep-2011 Chicago Tribune
Politicians, labor activists and ice cream makers gather to influence free-trade agreement
Malaysian declaration on the TPPA and access to medicines
6-Sep-2011
Call for all civil society groups, people living with HIV, all communities facing communcable, chronic and/or non-communicable diseases in the TPPA signatory countries to join forces to halt any & all trade agreements that restrict access to generic medicines.
Trans-Pacific trade pact called new NAFTA
5-Sep-2011 People’s World
Warning of a new "NAFTA for the Pacific Rim," labor and its allies are demanding a new free trade deal being negotiated for the Pacific region include protections for workers rights, health care and the environment.
Labor Day showdown: Can advocates stop ‘NAFTA of the Pacific’?
5-Sep-2011 Color Lines
This Labor Day, the Pacific Rim will wash into the Midwest’s flagship city, and activists will confront the tides of global commerce with a demand for global economic justice.
Human Rights Commission rejection of Trans-Pacific Partnership audit latest blow to democratic process
5-Sep-2011
The New Zealand Human Rights Commission has declined a request for a scoping study on the human rights implications of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), saying it doesn’t have the resources.
Capital controls and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
2-Sep-2011 IPS
US negotiators are hardliners against capital controls in current Trans-Pacific trade talks with eight other countries.
New trade agreement threatens Australia’s laws on medicines and tobacco
1-Sep-2011 Crikey
Australia leads the world in many areas of public health but the Federal Government could be negotiating our achievements away, according to Dr Patricia Ranald, Convenor, Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network
Chicago activists will protest Asia-Pacific trade deal
29-Aug-2011 Reuters
An umbrella group of activists opposed to a proposed U.S. trade deal with eight countries in the Asia Pacific region said Friday they aim to raise public awareness of its potential effects on jobs and the environment when negotiators meet next month in Chicago.
US: Analysts criticise proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership
28-Aug-2011 IPS
Critics of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) gathered in Washington to voice concerns over the US’s stronghold on intellectual property rights.
World-first plain packaging for tobacco products becomes law in Australia
25-Aug-2011 The Conversation
Legislation requiring tobacco products to be in plain packaging was passed by Australia’s House of Representatives last night. This is the first such measure in the world to become law.
House legislators lobby to exclude 12-year data exclusivity period from free trade agreement
12-Aug-2011 Patent Docs
Last week, a group of seven House Democrats, led by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), sought to have the 12-year data exclusivity period provided by the biosimilar approval pathway of the US’ Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act excluded from the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement
DoP to convey concerns of industry over proposed FTAs, TPPA to commerce ministry
10-Aug-2011 PharmaBiz
India’s Department of Pharmaceuticals will take up issues with the Commerce Ministry regarding the proposed Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement which is likely to have adverse impact on the Indian pharma products, and other such Free Trade Agreements in the pipeline.