Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal signed by 12 member nations in New Zealand

Thursday, February 4th 2016 - 07:45 UTC

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The Trans Pacific Partnership, one of the biggest multinational trade deals ever, has been signed by ministers from its 12 member nations in New Zealand. The ceremony in Auckland brings the huge trade pact, which has been five years in the making, another step towards to becoming a reality. But the TPP continues to face opposition. Read full article

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Great deal.

Hoping they eventually add labour mobility to this as there's several countries I'd love to work in.
Feb 04th, 2016 - 09:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Brasileiro
The gain is minimal. Most of these countries have had free trade agreements among themselves. And everyone has practiced low import duties among themselves.
Feb 04th, 2016 - 09:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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That's not true.

But love to hear your sour grapes. No one wants free trade with Brazil.

It's partly why you're in such a terrible recession. And we aren't. Because we embrace free trade and the wealth it helps create.
Feb 04th, 2016 - 11:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
If only Uruguay was a member!

Too bad the workforce is illiterate and innumerate otherwise we would be raking money in instead of taxing everybody to death.

The Broad Fraud are aptly named.

Even if they stopped pissing about with education, put an actually teacher in charge of turning back the crap the political appointees have made it would still be twenty years before the workforce improved to below the level for Mexico.

By then everybody else would still be many years ahead.
Feb 04th, 2016 - 02:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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@4 ChrisR
Too true.
But unfortunately, (or not) Uruguay is streets ahead of many LatAm Countries...
:-( not sure what that says...
Colombia is coming on strong now... Ecuador is going to the dogs... Chile proves resilient.
As for Mexico, (and I have a very good, and very successful English friend there), some parts are great, others a complete nightmare....)
Venezuela is ruined.
It will take at least 2 generations to fix it.
Breaks my heart.
Feb 05th, 2016 - 04:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
@ 5 ilsen
“Breaks my heart.”

It does mine as far as Uruguay are concerned: great country, some truly great people but stuck with The Broad Fraud because they bank-rolled the stinking poor with bribes called 'support'

So now we have 1,400,000 deadbeats and 600,000 government or monopoly workers out of 3.3M citizens.
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