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PACER-Plus Resources
Date published: 11 Nov 09
PACER Plus is a proposed free trade agreement between Australia, New Zealand and 14 Pacific Island countries, which will cover trade in goods, services and investment.
PACER Plus will have major impacts on Pacific Island economies and communities, including significant losses in government revenue, undermining of public services, business closures and job losses.
To find out more about PACER Plus and its potential implications on Pacific Islands, see below.
Media coverage of AID/WATCH's Pacific Trade Justice Speaking Tour (November 2009)
AID/WATCH Fact sheet: Aid for trade and PACER-Plus (November 2009)
Speaking Truth to Power: Australian and New Zealand use of power politics to launch Pacific free trade negotiations published by PANG (July 2009)
“2009 Statement to Pacific Island Forum Trade Ministers regarding deliberations on potential PACER-Plus negotiations” issued by Pacific civil society organisations, churches and trade unions (June 2009).
A People’s Guide to PACER (2004)
Making Waves: Opportunities for Reclaiming Development in the Pacific (2008)
Click here for fact sheets on PACER-Plus produced by the Australian Civil Society Network on Pacific Trade, which links unions, churches and nongovernmental organisations.
Further resources on trade and economic justice issues in the Pacific are available at:
Pacific Trade Information Network (Pactrade), which has a range of materials on issues related to trade and globalisation in the Pacific – with a particular focus on the push for Pacific Island Countries to sign on to new free trade agreements
AFTINET, a network of over 90 organisations and individuals concerned about trade and investment policy.
Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG), a research, education and advocacy organisation, which plays the role of the Pacific regional “peoples’ watchdog on trade issues”.
Oxfam New Zealand, a nongovernmental organisation, which works with people around the world to end the injustice of poverty.
