A Trans Pacific Partnership meeting hosted by US President Barack Obama with the Sultan of Brunei and prime ministers from Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia , Singapore and Vietnam, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on November 20, 2012.
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International trade agreements bring new transnational food companies into countries, along with new food advertising and promotion.
This has often led to an increase in unhealthy foods entering the domestic…
The demand for shark fins has pushed threatened shark species from 15 in 1996 to 180 in 2010.
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Each year around 100 million sharks are killed for their fins. The sharks are often pulled from the water, their fins are sliced off and they are thrown back in to drown. The industry is built on the high…
Trade Minister Craig Emerson is committed to pursuing a free trade agenda at the Doha Development Round. But will other countries follow suit?
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Australian Trade Minister Craig Emerson’s opinion piece in The Weekend Australian, titled “Doha is no dodo as it takes off on new flight path”, brings new enthusiasm and life to the Doha Development Agenda…
Australia’s resource relationships with Korea, China and Japan weigh heavily on the regional trade agenda.
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With the emerging discourse on the ‘Asian Century’, it has become something of a national past-time in Australia to bemoan our lack of integration in the Asia-Pacific region. As the soon-to-be-released…
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key and Julia Gillard are at loggerheads over the investment chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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This week, San Diego is hosting the latest round of talks over the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Australia and New Zealand are at loggerheads over this secretive new trade treaty spanning the Pacific Rim…
As a major donor in the region, Australia should defend countries facing the possibility of unaffordable medicines.
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Australia is taking a strong stance to protect its health and medicines policies during negotiations for the new regional trade agreement, the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). This negotiating…
India is emerging as a world economy – so why can’t Australia make more its relationship?
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CHOGM: As the leaders of Commonwealth nations prepare to meet in Perth this week, The Conversation is examining the role of the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) Meeting.
In the first…
The outcome of the negotiations will have far-reaching consequences for access to medicines in participating countries.
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Trade negotiations currently being conducted behind closed doors could see a major setback to providing access to essential medicines for the world’s poorest people.
The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement…
