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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
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1-Jun-2010
Bloomberg
New Zealand, the world’s biggest dairy exporter, agreed to begin work on a free trade accord with Russia, the world’s largest market for butter and cheese. Any such deal will include Belarus and Kazakstan, according to NZ trade minister Tim Groser.
17-May-2010
Radio NZ
Meat & Wool New Zealand is anxious to see a free trade agreement with South Korea completed as soon as possible so that this country’s beef trade can compete on an equal footing there.
29-Mar-2010
NZ Herald
New Zealand and Hong Kong will today sign a closer economic partnership(CEP) agreement, building on the free trade agreement with China.
23-Mar-2010
Trade Minister Tim Groser will sign a free trade agreement with Hong Kong when he visits there on Monday.
23-Feb-2010
NZ Herald
If New Zealand wants a free trade agreement with the European Union it will first have to explain what is in it for Europe, a senior EU trade official says.
8-Feb-2010
Scoop
New Zealand journalist Gordon Campbell on why free trade with the US is more Monty Python than Holy Grail
5-Feb-2010
NZ Herald
"You’re talking about a billion people that we largely don’t export anything to now," Meat and Wool New Zealand chairman Mike Petersen said
1-Feb-2010
NZ Herald
India and New Zealand have begun negotiations for a free trade agreement which Trade Minister Tim Groser says will put New Zealand in a prime place to benefit from India’s economic growth.
24-Jan-2010
Closer trade ties with the Middle East will culminate this April with the signing of a free trade agreement. AMANDA MORRALL finds out why the exporter’s road to Mecca is pointing in that direction.
12-Jan-2010
Stuff
Anti-whaling protesters have called for Kiwis to boycott Japanese goods over the slaughter of whales as the protest ship Ady Gil sank in the Southern Ocean.
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Government of NZ’ page on FTAs
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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.