If the Trans-Pacific Partnership was really about economic growth, it would include China, rather than deliberately locking it out.
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership may not be a done deal, but Australia cannot avoid the realities of the cut-throat business of international capital, trade and investment.
There’s still some way to go before the 12 countries involved can celebrate.
Before the last round of negotiations, only a handful of issues remained in the way of concluding the TPP. A potential deal-breaker for Australia was intellectual property protections for biologics.
Trade agreements are often misunderstood by the community, making it easier for gross exaggerations about their benefits.
The US may be closer than people think to a deal over geographical indications, laws that protect products based on their location such as Champagne, Darjeeling tea and prosciutto di Parma.
Disputes over intellectual property and car parts are emerging as last-minute hurdles as negotiators race to complete the Trans-Pacific Partnership ahead of elections.
The demand for agricultural products in Africa is expected to rise over the next 35 years due to factors such as population growth, urbanisation, economic growth and changing diets.
Japanese negotiators in Maui appear to be bending to American pressure to accept more US rice imports. The flood of grain, local farmers say, will end their way of life.
There’s plenty of noise but also some genuine concerns about how the TTIP trade agreement could force healthcare privatisation.
Exporters like Australia’s trade agreements, but the public will take more convincing on the benefits.
Sub-Saharan African countries have the lowest trade among themselves compared with other regions. This is why there has been a major focus on reducing red tape and other non-tariff trade barriers
The passage of fast-track trading authority represents a rare moment of bipartisan compromise. How did it happen?
While Australians understand the political benefits of free trade agreements, many remain divided on the economic merit.
The fight over fast-track that pitted the president against his own party offers reasons for both pessimism and optimism in future trade deals.
Political issues have left ChAFTA an imperfect agreement in which the government has been forced to pick winners and losers.
President Obama pulled out all the stops in recent days, but it wasn’t enough to convince House Democrats that he would negotiate a fair trade deal in the Pacific.
Events in Washington this week on the proposed historic 12-member Trans-Pacific trade agreement have had all the key elements of a Shakespearean tragedy. A resolute, noble and well-intentioned ruler (played…
NAFTA promised strong labor protections but failed to deliver. The Trans-Pacific Partnership is headed in the same direction.
Passage of trade promotion authority is still far from certain, but yesterday’s Senate vote may signal good news for the trade deals it’s meant to help.
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Merced
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School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Industry Professor and Chief Economist, University of Technology Sydney
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Director and Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute (UTS:ACRI), University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer of international trade law, Monash Business School, Monash University
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Distinguished Professor, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, & Head, Department of Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Professor, and Executive Director: Institute for International Trade, and Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Trade and Environment, Adelaide University
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Research Director, The University of Western Australia
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Regents Professor of Law and Communication and Director of the Center for Law and Intellectual Property, Texas A&M University
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