New Zealand
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19-Jun-2018 Stuff
Red meat quotas a likely sticking point when NZ-EU FTA talks get underway
Agricultural exports into Europe look set to be a hurdle facing New Zealand diplomats when negotiations for free trade agreements with the European Union and Great Britain get started.
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12-Jun-2018 Scoop
Economist warns free trade agreements can be “job killers”
Free trade agreements can be “job killing” in the poorer countries who sign up to such agreements, and exert a downward pressure on wages even in advanced countries, warns Nobel Prize winning economist.
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5-Jun-2018 Web-agri
Les éleveurs manifesteront le 10 juin contre « la malbouffe importée »
Le 10 juin, les éleveurs français manifesteront contre les accords commerciaux internationaux et la « malbouffe importée », aux côtés des agriculteurs de la FNSEA qui appellent ce jour-là à des blocages de raffineries.
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28-May-2018 AgriLand
Trade deals with Australia and New Zealand could cause chaos for Irish agriculture
This week’s confirmation that the European Union (EU) is to commence trade talks with Australia and New Zealand has bad news written all over it from the perspective of Irish agriculture.
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23-May-2018 NZ Herald
Trade deal with European Union could raise a stink over rights to naming cheese
New Zealand dairy companies could lose the right to use terms such as Feta, Parmesan, Brie and Camembert if a free trade deal goes ahead with the European Union.
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23-May-2018 Radio NZ
Specialty cheesemakers ’worse off’ in EU trade deal
An award-winning cheese producer says a trade deal with the European Union will hurt the specialty cheese industry.
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23-May-2018 SBS
EU approves free trade negotiations with Australia and NZ
The European Union will begin free-trade agreement negotiations with Australia and New Zealand.
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23-May-2018 Les Echos
Commerce : l’Union européenne s’ouvre au Pacifique
La Commission européenne va ouvrir dès cet été des négociations avec l’Australie et la Nouvelle Zélande pour conclure un accord de libre-échange.
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22-May-2018 European Council
EU-New Zealand FTA: Negotiating directives (May 2018)
As released by the European Council
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22-May-2018 Le Soir
Accords commerciaux : Les gouvernements de l’Union européenne imposent le business as usual!
La Commission soumettra au Conseil des 28 représentants des Etats membres de l’UE les projet d’accords commerciaux entre l’Europe et la Nouvelle-Zélande et l’Australie.
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22-May-2018 SBS
EU to approve free-trade negotiations with Australia and NZ
The European Union will begin free-trade agreement negotiations with Australia and New Zealand.
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21-May-2018 The Spin Off
Parliament must ensure we don’t sign away values for trade
The way we sign up to trade deals must change, and parliament needs to lead the process to prevent flawed agreements like the TPP getting through, write lawyer Oliver Hailes and academic Max Harris.
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17-May-2018 ICTSD
Pacific Alliance, associate members enter fourth negotiating round, look to clinch deal by July
The four-country Pacific Alliance consists of Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. The coalition aims to achieve the goal, launched nearly a year ago, of conferring a new associate member status to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Singapore.
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14-May-2018 NZ Herald
Government hones in on revamped China FTA
The Government hopes to start the next round of talks on the upgrade of the China Free Trade Agreement in the next few weeks.
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14-May-2018 Mondaq
New Zealand signs side letters with five CPTPP members to exclude compulsory investor state dispute settlement
New Zealand has recently signed "side letters" to exclude compulsory Investor State Dispute Settlement with five members of the CPTPP – Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Peru, Viet Nam and Australia.
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9-May-2018 Global Meat News
EU/New Zealand free trade agreement must meet meat sector concerns, say experts
With a new European Union EU/New Zealand customs agreement coming into force, EU farm body Copa-Cogeca has warned that anticipated follow-up trade talks should not boost NZ access to EU meat markets.
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26-Apr-2018 Scoop
Pacific economic ministers cautioned on NZ’s PACER-Plus view
PACER-Plus will undermine the right of governments to regulate, and see the Pacific bear the burden of binding commitments in the areas of interest to Australia and New Zealand whilst getting little legal commitments in return.
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17-Apr-2018 Yahoo
New Zealand PM pushes for EU trade deal
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern pushed for a "progressive" free-trade agreement with the European Union.
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11-Apr-2018 BAE Negocios
El Mercosur inició ronda con Nueva Zelanda y el bloque europeo EFTA
En lo que fue el inicio de una serie de reuniones comerciales, el Mercosur mantuvo el lunes el primer diálogo con Nueva Zelanda, en tanto que entre ayer y el viernes se desarrolla la tercer ronda con el bloque EFTA.
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28-Mar-2018 France Diplomatie
Nouvelle-Zélande - Entretien de M. Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne avec le ministre néo-zélandais du commerce et de la croissance des exportations
La France est favorable au développement des échanges avec la Nouvelle-Zélande et à la conclusion d’un accord mutuellement bénéfique qui prenne en compte les sensibilités de chacun.
