Protest against a New Zealand/China Free Trade Agreement
Wednesday Next - September 1st Hyatt Hotel, Corner Princes Street and Waterloo Quadrant From 5pm
Organised by GPJA
A Big Business promotion of a New Zealand/China Free Trade Agreement is being held at the Hyatt this week. This seminar
(cost $556.00!) is organised by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, the New Zealand Asia Institute and the New Zealand
Herald. It is called 'Gateway to China' and its website is http://www.gatewaytochina.co.nz
Speakers include Mike Moore, Trade Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton, Herald Editor Gavin Ellis, right-wing journalist
Fran O'Sullivan, Michael Barnett (Chamber of Commerce). One of the panels includes CTU President Ross Wilson.
A free trade agreement would have benefits for Big Business but would have dreadful effects for the rest of our
community. This is part of the WTO, IMF and World Bank attempts to create a single free market for goods and services
around the world. Globalisation in terms of so-called free trade benefits international corporations at the expense of
the rest of the international community. For example more cheap imports from China will undermine manufacturing jobs in
New Zealand and replace these with more "stack the shelves in the Warehouse with cheap rubbish from overseas" jobs. The
negative impacts will be felt by decent working New Zealanders and their families.
Protest Wednesday Next - September 1st Hyatt Hotel, Corner Princes Street and Waterloo Quadrant From 5pm
The programme for the one-day seminar is as follows -
7.15 registration
8 am opening remarks,: Barnett, Sutton, Dryden Spring, Gaven Ellis Chinese Ambassador (which means Falun Gong are bound
to be there)
8.20 keynote - mad Mike Moore
8.50 Prepare for FTA - MFAT and Ministry of Commerce China
9.30 Keynote, Hong Kong Bureau chief Economic Intelligence Unit (contradiction in terms)
10 am workshops - Fonterra advice to companies about China - Warehouse advice to importers services: AUT's advice on
services exports!
10.30 morning tea and networking
10.50 Keynote: Director China Studies, Oxford and special adviser to China govt
11.20 Chile and NZ journalist perspective - Fran
11.50 Supply chain - logistics company speakers
12.20 Midday workshops - case study on partnerships: Pan Pac Lumber - Lessons from Sun Tzu (?)
12.50 lunch
1.40 Business strategies for capitalist China - speaker from McKinsey
2.10 Chinas banking system - HSBC
2.40 Case study: on the ground in China - Richina Pacific
3.10 Afternoon workshops: - case study, dynamic markets, Astrograss Allweather Surfaces - managing inbound and outbound
trade risks - Vero Marine, NCI
3.40 Afternoon refreshments and networking
4.00 Marketing intelligence - Asia Demographics (not Mad Mike!)
4.30 Developing Business in Emerging Markets - Malaysia Airlines
4.40 Case study - "successful strategies for entering the world's largest market - Director North East Asia Institute,,
Otago University
5.10 Understanding China's legal framework - Rouse & Co, Shanghai
5.40 Questions to Panel (only new voice includes Ross Wilson)
6.30 Closing remarks from chair
6.35 Cocktails (and doubtless more networking)
It won't cost you $556.00 to attend the protest... but you can register your opposition to the driving force of big
business in the lives of working people from around the world. Don't forget -
Protest Wednesday Next - September 1st Hyatt Hotel, Corner Princes Street and Waterloo Quadrant From 5pm