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No gain, much pain, for Oz in TPP

TPP opens up trade between members but makes trade more difficult with non-members through a process known as “cumulative rules of origin” where members lose privileges if they source inputs from countries outside the TPP…The Productivity Commission has been strongly critical … Continue reading

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Transcanada’s Keystone XL Suit illustrates problem with TPP, Free Trade fantasies

The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secret trade agreement that will adversely affect the environment, worker’s rights, cost of medicines, internet freedoms, food safety, intellectual property rights and indigenous rights. Friends of the Earth Australia (FoEA) has long warned that … Continue reading

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