Tag Archives: TPPA

Free trade needs to protect vulnerable HIV sufferers

  Rob Lake and Shiba Phurailatpam write: The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) has been hailed for its potential to remove barriers to free trade. However, in free trade, someone (else) often ends up paying. Significant pressure from the US … Continue reading

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Trade agreement threatens health in Australia and Pacific

BY DEBORAH GLEESON The Canberra Times, 03 Aug, 2011 The US is trying to force provisions that will limit governments’ ability to protect citizens, Deborah Gleeson writes. A new trade agreement being negotiated between Australia, the United States and seven … Continue reading

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Vietnam and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

The Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement being currently negotiated is proving to be retrograde to the fight against HIV in Vietnam. According to a June 16 article in the Public Citizen: The leaked U.S. proposal for the intellectual property chapter of the … Continue reading

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Press: New Zealand Challenges Pharma In Trade Talks

Source: Pharmalot, 08.12.2010, by Ed Silverman Generally, trade agreements are discussed behind closed doors, but a New Zealand talk paper was leaked the other day and contains ideas that run counter to suggestions being pushed by US and the global … Continue reading

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KEI: US Industry IP demands on the TPP negotiations leaked

Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) has received a copy of U.S. industry demands on the Intellectual Property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiations. A draft letter from US industry to USTR has been leaked [..]. The letter was prepared … Continue reading

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