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Singapore and New Zealand to enter digital trade agreement
7-Jan-2021 Foreign Brief
The Digital Economy Partnership Agreement between New Zealand, Singapore, and Chile will enter into force today.
EU and New Zealand reach provisional agreement on two more chapters of future trade agreement
1-Dec-2020 European Commission
This round of negotiations resulted in a provisional agreement on two additional chapters: ‘Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)’ and ‘Capital Movements’.
PACER Plus: the case against
25-Nov-2020 Devpolicy Blog
For the Pacific Island Countries, PACER Plus represents a squandered opportunity to address the real development needs of the region and a waste of time and significant resources.
EU-New Zealand chart course toward green trade deals
23-Nov-2020 Politico
Talks with New Zealand look likely to set a template for a new way of doing business.
RCEP - a wake up call to rethink the failed hyperglobalisation model
19-Nov-2020 Scoop World
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) that was signed virtually yesterday is a wake up call for the cheerleaders of hyperglobalisation: countries and their peoples have become wary and weary of these mega-free trade deals
Jane Kelsey: Let’s not play Lazarus to toxic TPPA trade deal
10-Nov-2020 NZ Herald
We are living in a very different world from the era that gave us the TPPA, which was turbulent enough. We have new realities, new priorities, and new challenges.
Is the Pacific’s new trade deal an early Xmas gift or a double edged sword?
2-Nov-2020 RNZ
There are mixed reactions in the Pacific to a new free trade deal which comes into force in December.
China, New Zealand agree to upgrade FTA: MOFCOM
25-Sep-2020 CGTN
China and New Zealand agreed to promote cooperation within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative and move forward the bilateral efforts on upgrading the free trade agreement (FTA).
Unions insist they must be consulted on trade deals
21-Sep-2020 The News
Unions in the UK, Australia and New Zealand have joined forces to call for decent jobs and workers’ rights to be protected under any deals on trade.
New Zealand ’frustrated’ over UK trade talks, says deputy PM
13-Aug-2020 BBC
New Zealand is "very frustrated" with the pace of post-Brexit trade talks with the UK, the country’s deputy prime minister has said.
Potential ISDS problems post Covid-19
29-Jun-2020 Scoop
The Transpacific Partnership Agreement involves investor - state dispute settlement clauses, which large companies may use ISDS to sue governments for actions they took to stop the spread of the virus.
Still no end in sight on EU free-trade deal
26-Jun-2020 NBR
After eight rounds of negotiations, there is still no end in sight for an EU-New Zealand free-trade deal.
UK begins talks with Australia and New Zealand on free trade deal for post-Brexit era
17-Jun-2020 The Guardian
Australian and New Zealand ministers say they are eager to do deals with the UK as their economies emerge from the coronavirus crisis.
Digital trade agreement signed with Chile and Singapore
12-Jun-2020 RNZ
New Zealand’s government has today signed a digital trade agreement with Chile and Singapore.
Steamed-up Parker slams ’derisory’ leaked EU trade offer
9-Jun-2020 Business Desk
The EU exported the equivalent of just under a kilogram of cheese to New Zealand per New Zealander in 2019 and, under the leaked offer, the EU proposes letting in just over 3 grams of New Zealand cheese per EU citizen
Asia Trade bloc seeks ways to include India, says New Zealand official
5-Jun-2020 Headlines Ind
The 15 member countries of the RCEP grouping have proposed that India defer opening up its market to them, in a move to address New Delhi’s key concern of its burgeoning trade deficit with them especially China.
Trade deals are a handbrake on New Zealand’s post-Covid recovery
19-May-2020 The Spinoff
The ‘spend local’ mantra should apply to our biggest infrastructure projects too. Yet trade and investment agreements curb the government’s freedom to use procurement for a range of economic and social objectives.
Report on the seventh round of negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and New Zealand
30-Apr-2020 European Commission
The seventh round of EU-New Zealand trade negotiations was held virtually, but covered all substantial areas.
Regional MPs call for greater transparency of RCEP negotiations
10-Mar-2020 APHR
As ministers of the member countries of the RCEP meet for final negotiations over the trade agreement this week, regional lawmakers today expressed concern about the lack of parliamentary and public oversight of the deal, as well as its potential human rights impacts.
New Zealand to wait for trade pact if India out of RCEP
4-Mar-2020 Fibre 2 Fashion
New Zealand will look forward to a bilateral trade agreement with India if New Delhi does not join the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).