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The most favoured nation provision in article 139 does apply to existing investments and controls on new investments. If we want to further restrict the sale of farmland or houses to Chinese investors, we can. Article 139 simply requires NZ to treat China no less favourably than other countries. Clause 3 of article 139 means earlier agreements with our Australian and Pacific Island neighbours are not affected, and do not flow into the China FTA. Later agreements do flow through.
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Originally posted by speights boy View Post
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Originally posted by speights boy View PostLabour say they will; if elected.
They are concerned the TPPA and Sth Korean FTA may mean those particular countries will not be able to be banned.
What bargaining chips does NZ have to demand special treatment? The TPPA is a joint agreement yeah? so if other countries don't buy into it, then NZ has not much bargaining power over this.
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Whooa guys, lets take a realistic view of the Trans Pacific Partnership.
There are twelve nations involved. The purpose is to agree on free unrestricted trade between these twelve nations. No import taxes and no export levies.
In a simple world this is obvious. I sell turnips to Auckland. On an international basis Auckland imposes an import tax to protect turnip growers in Pukekoe. But we don't do that inside NZ.
So the TPP aims to eliminate those taxes across member countries.
If you fear the TPP ask yourself this - how vulnerable are Malaysia and Vietnam? The answer is VERY vulnerable - yet they are part of the negotiations. Canada has far more to fear than NZ. In the US there is strident reaction against the TPP because they think NZ and Aus will overwhelm them.
I think NZ has little to fear and much to gain. Just my 2c
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TPP: Australia on the verge of joining huge new Pacific trade deal
Australia is on the cusp of joining a huge new United States-led trade deal which will "set the rules" for doing business in the region at the expense of China.Earlier, when Mr Obama was wrestling with Congress, he told the Wall Street Journal: "If we don't write the rules, China will write the rules out in that region."
And US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter went further: "Passing TPP is as important to me as another aircraft carrier."
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we have a thread somewhere on the TPP
but as our search function refuses to even try a 3 letter search
i can't find it
so i'll put this here
perry (mods?) can move it, and delete the guff above, if he so wishes
HE HAS THE POWER
Even when the details are known, it will still be hard to assess the impact.
The most authoritative study, published by the Peterson Institute for International Economics,
reckons the TPP will enlarge the economies of the 12 member states by $285 billion by 2025.
http://www.economist.com/news/financ...ood-news-worldhave you defeated them?
your demons
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Originally posted by Winston001 View PostWell NO Perry.
Free trade of resources is the core of free trade. It is the reason why we
have Philippine and Indian people doing call centre and other work.
it goes from one country to another. When it's a telephonic service
like a call centre, it's little more than a mirage-like virtual free trade
in human resources. What's happening is successive governments
exporting the jobs of its citizens to sweat shop economies. It's the
downfall of USA and it will happen, here, too.
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The Government will face a higher medicine bill under the Trans-Pacific
Partnership (TPP) trade deal, Prime Minister John Key warns.
"The question for New Zealanders is as simple as this: Do you think if
we have access to the massive United States and Japanese markets with
our exporters having a level playing field, will they do better or
worse, will it create more jobs or less, will the country be more
prosperous as a result?"
So the softening up begins.
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