In The News

30 July 2008

WTO failure disappoints Business Forum

The New Zealand International Business Forum today expressed its deep disappointment that the World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting in Geneva had failed to agree on a way forward for the Doha negotiations | Read more

11 June 2008

Productive discussions with US on trade issues

Following discussions with key Administration and Congressional leaders in Washington over the past two days, Trade and Defence Minister Phil Goff said he was confident that New Zealand would progress towards a free trade agreement with the United States | Read more

03 June 2008

The Doha Round can be part of the answer to the food crisis - Lamy

Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his address to the High-Level Conference on World Food Security on 3 June 2008 in Rome, said that "through greater and fairer competition, international trade can help lower prices". He added that the Doha Round would reduce trade-distorting subsidies and tariffs, and could strengthen WTO rules on export restrictions. | Read more

24 May 2008

Obama urges Bush back off South Korea trade deal

Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama in a letter released on Friday warned of a major fight over a free trade agreement with South Korea if President George W. Bush sends it to the U.S. Congress. | Read more

06 May 2008

The U.S. trade agenda

Remarks by Ambassador Susan Schwab, United States Trade Representative to the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington DC | Read more

07 April 2008

New Zealand-China FTA celebration

Prime Minister Helen Clark's address at the dinner to celebrate the signing of the free trade agreement | Read more

07 April 2008

Historic first - NZ-China Free Trade Agreement signed

Prime Minister Helen Clark and Chinese counterpart, Premier Wen Jiabao, today witnessed the signing of the historic Free Trade Agreement between New Zealand and China in Beijing's Great Hall of the People. | Read more

07 April 2008

FTA secures NZ position in China market

The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to be signed with China should lift economic performance and keep New Zealand at the forefront of moves towards freer trade in the Asia Pacific region, says the New Zealand International Business Forum (NZIBF). | Read more

30 March 2008

Prime Minister to visit China for FTA deal signing

Prime Minister Helen Clark will lead a large New Zealand delegation to China's capital Beijing next month for events associated with the signing of the New Zealand-China Free Trade Agreement (FTA). | Read more

27 March 2008

Ministers welcome a quarter century of CER

Trade Minister Phil Goff and Commerce Minister Lianne Dalziel today acknowledged and welcomed the progress made in the 25 years since the Australia New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement (ANZCERTA) was signed on 28 March 1983 | Read more

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