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India-New Zealand trade talks likely early next year
’While Indian agriculture is highly protected, improved access for our agricultural and primary produce, especially in an added-value form, needs to be one of the key focuses of the negotiations,’ India-New Zealand Trade Business Council chairman Wenceslaus Anthony said.
New Zealand - FTA with Hong Kong signed
New Zealand (NZ) and Hong Kong have signed a free trade agreement (FTA) on the back of recently concluded trade talks.
Hong Kong a new link in our free trade agreements
New Zealand has added Hong Kong to its patchwork of free trade agreements.
Free-trade deal with Hong Kong announced
New Zealand has negotiated yet another free-trade agreement with an Asian economy, the latest being with Hong Kong.
NZ agrees trade deal with six Gulf states
New Zealand has successfully concluded negotiations for a free trade agreement with six oil-rich Gulf states, Trade Minister Tim Groser announced yesterday.
Dairy sector welcomes FTA with Gulf States
The New Zealand industry expects to make substantial gains through preferential market access to the GCC and leverage off growing dairy consumption in the region.
New Zealand and Gulf states finalize free trade pact
New Zealand and the six states of the Gulf Cooperation Council have concluded a free trade agreement, Trade Minister Tim Groser announced Monday.
Key plans pitch on free trade deal to Japanese
John Key will make a bold pitch for a free-trade agreement between Japan and New Zealand when he meets Japan’s Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama late tonight in Tokyo.
Free trade deal buoys Fonterra
Fonterra chairman Sir Henry van der Heyden says the dairy co-operative will step up investment within Asia because of the Malaysian free trade deal.
PM: Trade deal big step for economy
John Key says the signing of a free trade deal with Malaysia is another vital move towards a "step change" for the New Zealand economy.
NZ close to free trade compact
New Zealand is closing in on an historic free-trade agreement with Hong Kong which could be precedent-setting, says the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Key to join free trade talks with Asean nations
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key will be asked this weekend to sign up to an ambitious bid to create what could become the largest multi-national free trade agreement in the world.
Case for NZ-US free trade deal to be nudged along
The case for a free trade agreement with the United States will get another nudge this week when more than 100 leaders from both countries will take part in discussion hosted by the United States-New Zealand Partnership Forum on strengthening the economic relationship.
S. Korea, New Zealand to hold free trade negotiations next week
South Korea and New Zealand will hold the second round of bilateral free trade talks next week, South Korean trade ministry said Thursday.
NZ closer to Middle East trade deal
Plans to further relations between New Zealand and the Middle East are on track and a trade agreement looks close to being finalised next year, one business expert says.
Trade talks with India on hold
The start of free trade talks between New Zealand and India has been delayed following a change in India’s commerce minister since elections in May.
NZ, M’sia agree FTA
New Zealand and Malaysia have agreed a free trade agreement, New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser said on Tuesday.
Kiwis say no to free trade agreement with US
Two hoary old myths are peddled as a means to get NZ out of its particular corner of the global economic crisis — that the economy needs to be opened up even more to foreign investors, by means of liberalising, yet again, the Overseas Investment Act; and that a Free Trade Agreement with the US is the Holy Grail of the numerous trade deals that the Government is currently pursuing. The Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) says “no” to both and we are not alone.
NZ, EU to explore bilateral agreement
New Zealand and the European Union are exploring the benefits of a comprehensive bilateral agreement covering political, security and economic areas, Foreign Minister Murray McCully said today.
NZ-Hong Kong free trade talks resume
Trade talks with Hong Kong resume in Wellington this week and Trade Minister Tim Groser says he’s hoping for positive steps forward.