| Description |
288 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Political implications for New Zealand -- Politics of the TPPA in Australia -- US politics and the TPPA -- TPPA and indigenous peoples : lessons from Latin America -- Security implications of the TPPA -- Lessons from the Australia - US free trade agreement -- TPPA, agribusiness and rural livelihoods -- Quarantine and food safety issues in a TPPA -- Border carbon adjustments and climate change policy -- Public health and medicine policies -- Intellectual propety in New Zealand and the TPPA -- Culture and information |
| Summary |
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is no ordinary free trade deal. It has been billed as an agreement fit for the 21st century, but no-one is sure what that means. The US sells this eight-country deal as the key to jobs and economic recovery while protecting home markets. Australia hails it as a foundation stone for an APEC-wide free trade agreement. New Zealand sees it a magic bullet to open the US dairy market. None of these arguments stack up. Experts from Australia, New Zealand, the US and Chile examine the geopolitics and security context of the negotiations and set out the costs of making concessions to the US simply to achieve a deal. They argue its obligations will intrude into core areas of domestic government policy which have nothing to do with imports and exports, including foreign investment, financial regulation, access to affordable medicines, food standards, services and government procurement. These are the issue that caused the majority of public to the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement in 2004. Above all, this book exposes the contradictions of locking our countries even deeper into a neoliberal model of global free markets - when even political leaders admit that this has failed |
| Analysis |
Australia overseas comparisons |
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Case studies |
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Free trade agreements |
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Government regulation |
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Pacific Rim |
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Statistics |
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Trade negotiations |
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Trade policy |
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Trans Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement |
| Notes |
First published: Wellington, N.Z. : Bridget Williams Books, 2010 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Trans Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement -- Congresses
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Trans Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement
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Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (2006)
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Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement
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Commercial treaties -- Pacific Area -- Congresses.
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Commercial treaties -- Pacific Area.
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Commercial treaties.
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Pacific Area cooperation.
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Pacific Area cooperation -- Congresses.
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Reciprocity (Commerce) -- Pacific Area -- Congresses.
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Reciprocity (Commerce) -- Pacific Area.
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| SUBJECT |
Pacific Area http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096445 -- Commercial treaties http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001959 -- Congresses.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
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Pacific Area http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096445 -- Commercial treaties.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001959
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Kelsey, Jane.
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| ISBN |
9781742376271 (paperback) |
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