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New Zealand

New Zealand is a party to a number of completed free trade and investment agreements. These are: the Australia-New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Agreement (1983); the New Zealand-Singapore Closer Economic Partnership (2001); the New Zealand-Thailand Closer Economic Partnership (2005); the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership or P4 (2005); the New Zealand-China Free Trade Agreement (2008), the Australia-ASEAN-New Zealand free trade agreement (2009), the New Zealand-Malaysia FTA (2009),an FTA with the GCC, (2009) and the New Zealand-Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership (2010).

A New Zealand-India deal has been mooted. New Zealand’s government has indicated that it wants FTAs with Korea and Taiwan

While talk of a US-New Zealand FTA was hotly resisted and never got off the ground, partly because of New Zealand’s anti-nuclear policy, the expansion of what was initially called the P4 agreement to include the US (the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement) threatens to bring important changes to New Zealand policies.

New Zealand has also signed a number of IPPAs (bilateral investment treaties) with Chile, Argentina, Hong Kong, China and others.

last update: May 2012
Photo: NZ Free Trade Watch / Facebook

NZ concludes trade deal with Emirates
26-Sep-2024 NZ Herald
The deal, called a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, is the most “trade liberalising” of any CEPA signed by the UAE to date.
Environmental groups say government’s plans breach free trade agreement
14-Feb-2024 RNZ
A coalition of environment groups says New Zealand is breaching its free trade deal with the United Kingdom by rolling back environmental laws.
New Zealand to put ’every single effort’ into getting free trade deal with India
4-Dec-2023 RNZ
New Prime Minister made the ambitious commitment to conclude a free trade agreement with India within three years.
Latin America trade deal: NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern hints at progress
3-Nov-2022 NZ Herald
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has hinted at progress in the Government’s longstanding efforts to negotiate a free trade agreement with the Pacific Alliance, a group comprising Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile.
Primary industry reps to visit India with hopes of trade deals}
13-Sep-2022 RNZ
Primary industry leaders will be among a trade delegation travelling to India to reignite business to business relationships.
Te Pāti Māori to oppose UK free trade deal
26-Jul-2022 Scoop
Te Pāti Māori will oppose the United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement Legislation Bill, a trade deal which shut Māori out of negotiations, and that fails to protect Māori rights and interests.
10 days for submissions on UK FTA a total farce
4-Mar-2022 Scoop
People have only ten days to make submissions on the 1700-page secretly negotiated free trade agreement between New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
Behind the ‘inclusive’ window dressing, the NZ-UK free trade deal disappoints politically and economically
4-Mar-2022 The Conversation
The free trade agreement between New Zealand and the United Kingdom demonstrates the intransigence of political leaders and their official advisers in the face of concerted demands to rethink the country’s trade policy paradigm.
NZ UK FTA “inclusive trade” agenda does nothing to redress failed free trade model
1-Mar-2022 Scoop
Professor Kelsey repeated the calls for a comprehensive rethink of this model of free trade agreements to confront the social, environmental and economic challenges of the 21st century.
NZ-UK free trade agreement: “a missed opportunity”
1-Mar-2022 Scoop
The announcement of the free trade agreement with the United Kingdom was described by Pita Tipene as “a missed opportunity to set a new bar for honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi”.

    Links

  • New Zealand FTAs
    Government of NZ’ page on FTAs
  • Ngā Toki Whakarururanga
    Māori collective that aims to advance and protect Māori interests in the trade space.
  • Our World Is Not For Sale (New Zealand)
    The OUR WORLD IS NOT FOR SALE campaign was formed around building the protests at the September 2007 US-NZ Partnership Forum, the global justice campaign aims to build public support and organisation against the signing of any form of free trade agreement between the United States and New Zealand.