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Commission postpones mandate for Australia and New Zealand trade talks
12-Jul-2017 Politico
The European Commission has postponed the release of its proposals for trade talks with Australia and New Zealand to the fall, a senior official told the European Parliament’s trade committee.
NZ’s latest trade courtship is an insult to workers’ rights – and workers’ lives
4-Jul-2017 The Spinoff
By plunging into negotiations with Latin American countries in the Pacific Alliance, New Zealand maintains its shameful record of failing to hold partners to account on labour abuses.
Australia, New Zealand launch trade negotiations with Pacific Alliance
3-Jul-2017 Reuters
Australia and New Zealand each announced the start of free trade agreement negotiations with the Pacific Alliance trade bloc.
Pacific Alliance to admit new associate members to expand trade reach
30-Jun-2017 Reuters
The alliance, which comprises Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Peru, will admit Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and Canada as associate members in a first step to broadening the reach of its trade flows and investments.
China FTA talks set to resume
28-Jun-2017 Dairy News
Tariff elimination on dairy into China is one issue New Zealand will be looking to progress in the Free Trade Agreement update with China.
NZ first in line for Latin and South American trade deal
27-Jun-2017 NZ Herald
New Zealand hopes to take another step towards being the first country to sign up to a trade deal with a group of Latin American and South American countries.
European Union - New Zealand Free Trade Agreement: Outline of ambition and scope of future negotiations
20-Jun-2017 New Zealand Foreign Affairs & Trade
The scoping discussions covered, at a high level, the shared ambition for some key issues often addressed in trade negotiations.
New Zealand aims for high level free trade with Europe
15-Jun-2017 Fresh Plaza
The New Zealand Government has set a target of having 90 per cent of goods traded with the European Union covered by a free trade agreement by 2030.
PACER-Plus: Disappointment and lost opportunity
12-Jun-2017 Matangi Tonga
The PACER-Plus model of development is based on an increasingly questionable form of economics which naively imagines that national economies will adapt automatically to enhanced price signals from liberalised international markets from which ’distortions’ are removed.
Gulf states trade deal in doubt again following Qatari blow-up, English says
6-Jun-2017 NBR
The long-stalled free trade agreement between New Zealand and the Gulf Cooperation Council faces further delay.
Call for more time to assess Pacific trade deal
6-Jun-2017 Radio NZ
There’s been a call for more time to be given to Pacific civil society organisations and the private sector to assess the proposed regional free trade deal known as PACER Plus.
PACER-plus consolidated legal text
31-May-2017 Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, New Zealand
As released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of New Zealand
Exporters applaud efforts to salvage TPP
24-May-2017 Radio NZ
Major New Zealand exporters are applauding the government’s efforts to salvage a massive trade deal, but a long-time opponent says it is basically dead in the water.
Peru, Indonesia to start meetings towards trade agreement
23-May-2017 Andina
Peru and Indonesia will soon begin a series of bilateral meetings to reach a free trade agreement.
Differences over ‘TPP minus 1’ between NZ, Malaysia highlight obstacles to pact
23-May-2017 Today
Some nations such as New Zealand, Australia and Japan have been pushing for the deal to continue, but Malaysia’s Trade Minister Mustapa Mohamed said his country was less keen to proceed.
PACER Plus signing on 14 June
23-May-2017 Matangi
The PACER Plus Trade Agreement will be signed by 14 Pacific Island countries including Australia and New Zealand on June 14 in Nuku’alofa, Tonga.
Pacific Alliance looks to Asia as NAFTA, TPP face uncertainty
22-May-2017 CNBC
Pacific Alliance countries are in talks to expand the trade bloc outside Latin America and into high-growth Asia as the future of established deals, such as NAFTA and the evolving Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), hang in the balance.
New Zealand govt ratifies TPP agreement just days before English heads to Japan
11-May-2017 TVNZ
New Zealand has formally ratified the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal just days before Prime Minister Bill English heads to Japan for discussions over its future without the United States.
Aus, NZ trying to corner India in Oceania
9-May-2017 Sunday Guardian Live
One of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s most insightful, if low key, foreign policy initiatives was to work to deepen relations with more than a dozen island nations of Oceania.
New Pacific trade pact goes against the protectionist tide
5-May-2017 Nikkei
But 14-nation deal may be largely symbolic without Fiji and Papua New Guinea.