In The News

20 September 2011

Ambassador Kirk, New Zealand Minister of Trade Tim Groser hold bilateral meeting

Ambassador Kirk met today with New Zealand Minister of Trade Tim Groser. | Read more

16 September 2011

Japan’s chance for trade leadership

Yoshihiko Noda, Japan's new prime minister, must be totally perplexed by his country's own trade policy, or lack thereof, and by those of his major trading partners. His predecessor flirted recently with a number of potential free trade agreements - bilateral pacts with Korea, China and the European Union, plus the multilateral Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that would include the U.S. and much of Southeast Asia - but little came of it. | Read more

11 September 2011

PM marks 10th anniversary of terrorist attacks

Prime Minister John Key today said the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States was a time for reflection. | Read more

09 September 2011

Business groups back TPP

Business groups at the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks have got in behind the negotiations. | Read more

09 September 2011

Compac scores sweet US deal

Onehunga manufacturer Compac Sorting Equipment has clinched its biggest deal - an $18-million contract to design and build a state-of-the-art sorting and packing line for one of the world's biggest citrus companies. | Read more

08 September 2011

USTR Statement regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations

The Office of the United States Trade Representative issued the following statement today regarding the planned Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations in Chicago, IL this week. | Read more

07 September 2011

TPP coalition urges high standard outcomes

TPP coalition urges United States and TPP partners to work intensively to achieve high-standard outcomes on key issues in TPP negotiations. | Read more

19 August 2011

Sealegs opens US showroom

New Zealand amphibious boat maker Sealegs has opened its first international showroom, close to the playgrounds of America's wealthy East Coasters. | Read more

25 July 2011

Key ‘increasingly confident’ of trade deal with USA

John Key says he is increasingly confident a trade deal will be signed with the United States, after a week-long trip to America, where the Prime Minister met with high-level US trade representatives and US President Barack Obama. | Read more

23 July 2011

Obama extends warm welcome to Key

Barack Obama discusses ties between the United States and New Zealand, the Christchurch earthquake and the bombings in Norway, among other topics, with Prime Minister John Key at the White House. | Read more

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