PACER Resources
The Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER) will have a major impact on Pacific communities as it will influence the economic, social and environmental circumstances they live in. With negotiations for a "PACER-Plus" agreement set to include services and investment, these impacts will be even further reaching.
The negotiations between the European Union with Pacific Island Countries for an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) will shape the negotiations for what is now dubbed PACER-Plus. To find out more about the impacts that PACER-Plus and the EPA negotiations see the reports from AFTINET and others from the Pacific below:
Resources from 'Pacific Trade Winds Consultations' in Suva 18th-20th November 2010.
Better Connecting Pacific Trade and Sustainable Economic Development
Fiji - PACER-plus and Food Sovereignty
Land and Indigenous Peoples
Land and Trade
Maintaining a Healthy Pacific
NPTW – Ausaid
PACER Plus and Trade Opportunity for Pacific Organics
Pacific Growers Export Partnership
VANWOODS – Contribution to Livelihoods
PUTTING DEVELOPMENT ON THE AGENDA: Negotiating a Regional Trade Agreement for the Pacific Islands Forum - Wesley Morgan.
PACER-Plus Health Forums 2010 - Outcomes and Reports from the "Health and Trade in the Pacific: PACER-Plus - should we be worried?" held in Melbourne and Sydney in 2010.
Pacfic NGO Statement August 2010 - Call for Suspension of Talks
Australian and New Zealand NGO Statement in support for suspension August 2010
PACER Brief June 2008 - AFTINET 2 page backgrounder
A People's Guide to PACER - Jane Kelsey
A People's Guide to Pacific/EU Economic Partnership Agreements - Jane Kelsey
Making Waves - Pacfic Network on Globalisation (PANG) Report on reclaiming development in the Pacific.
Public Forum on Trade and Health in the Pacific: PACER Plus: Should we be concerned? - a report on a confernece held in Melbbounre in March 2010.
AFTINET Submission to DFAT on PACER Plus
AFTINET Submission to Senate Standing Committee on Foriegn Affairs, Defence and Trade: Inquiry into the Economic and Security Challenges facing Papua New Guinea and the Island States of the Southwest Pacific
