Rotorua Lakes Council has "no position on the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement" and has referred submissions on the issue to their strategy team, Mayor Steve Chadwick says.
This comes after the TPP Action Group presented a 12-point resolution to the council during its recent Long-term Plan hearings.
As a response
to the potential agreement, 11 local councils, including Auckland Council and Wellington City Council, have signed the 12-point resolution to reassert their rights against the controversial trade deal, which seeks to set investment and trade deals between 12 Asia-Pacific countries to cut tariffs, improve market access, and set common ground on issues such as the environmental and intellectual property rights.
TPP Action Group member Greg Rzesniowiecki presented the resolution to the council in June.
"The resolution came out of Auckland Council. It just retains what we have at the moment - if we are going to negotiate an agreement, what's in it for us? Local government has a mandate to look after the public's interests," she said.
