The Trans Pacific Partnership is no ordinary free trade deal. Billed as an agreement fit for the twentyfirst century, no one is sure what that means. For its champions in New Zealand a free trade agreement with the US is a magic bullet - opening closed doors for Fonterra into the US dairy market. President Obama sells it as the key to jobs and economic recovery, while protecting home markets. Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd hails it as a foundation stone for an APEC-wide free trade agreement. None of these arguments stacks up. All eight participant countries except Vietnam are heavily liberalised, deregulated and privatised.* They already have twelve free trade deals between them. No-one really believes that US dairy markets will be thrown open to New Zealand, or that China, India and Japan will sign onto a treaty they had no role in designing. No Ordinary Deal unmasks the fallacies of the TPP. Experts from Australia, New Zealand, the US and Chile examine the geopolitics and security context of the negotiations and set out some of the costs for New Zealand and Australia of making trade-offs to the US simply to achieve a deal. 'Trade' agreement is a misnomer. The TPP is not primarily about imports and exports. Its obligations will intrude into core areas of government policy and Parliamentary responsibilities. If the US lobby has its way, the rules will restrict how drug-buying agencies Pharmac (in New Zealand) and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (in Australia) can operate, and the kind of food standards and intellectual property laws we can have. Foreign investors will be able to sue the government for reducing their profits. The TPP will govern how we regulate the finance industry or other services, along with our capacity to create jobs at home. Above all, No Ordinary Deal exposes the contradictions of locking our countries even deeper into a neoliberal model of global free markets - when even political leaders admit that this has failed. *The US, Australia, New Zealand, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam
Table of Contents
Bryan Gould: The Political Implications for New Zealand of a Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement -- 2. Patricia Ranald: The Politics of the Trans-Pacific Partnership in Australia -- 3. Lori Wallach and Todd Tucker: US Politics -- 4. Jose Aylwin: The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Indigenous People: Lessons from Latin America -- 5. Paul G. Buchanan: Security Implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership -- 6. John Quiggin: Lesson from the Australian-US Free Trade Agreement -- 7. Warwick Murray and Ed Challies: Agriculture and Fonterra -- 8. David Adamson: Quarantine and Food Safety -- 9. Geoff Bertram: Border Carbon Adjustments and Climate-change Policy in a Free-trade Agreement with the United States -- 10. Thomas Faunce and Ruth Townsend: Potential Influence of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement on Domestic Public Health and Medicine Policies -- 11. Susy Frankel: Intellectual Property and the Trans-Pacific Partnership -- 12. Jock Given: Culture and Information -- 13. Ted Murphy: Government Procurement and Labour Issues -- 14. Bill Rosenberg: Management of International Capital and Investment: Making the Hard Harder -- 15. Jane Kelsey: Trade in Services -- 16. Nan Seuffert and Jane Kelsey: Trans-Pacific Partnership and Financial Services.
Author Biography
Professor Jane Kelsey teaches at the University of Auckland. Known for her exceptional research on political issues, she is the author of several books shaping the critical debate both locally and internationally. The New Zealand Experiment (AUP/BWB, 1995) struck a chord with its analysis of the 1980s political 'experiment', and went into several reprints. Reclaiming the Future (BWB, 1999), co-published with the University of Toronto Press, took a hard look at globalisation and its economic impacts. Ranging over law, economics and politics, Jane Kelsey's sharp intellect brings important analyses to the globalising world.
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