- Negotiations
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
30-Oct-2009
John Key will make a bold pitch for a free-trade agreement between Japan and New Zealand when he meets Japan’s Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama late tonight in Tokyo.
26-Oct-2009
Fonterra chairman Sir Henry van der Heyden says the dairy co-operative will step up investment within Asia because of the Malaysian free trade deal.
26-Oct-2009
John Key says the signing of a free trade deal with Malaysia is another vital move towards a "step change" for the New Zealand economy.
25-Oct-2009
NZ Herald
New Zealand is closing in on an historic free-trade agreement with Hong Kong which could be precedent-setting, says the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
22-Oct-2009
National Business Review
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key will be asked this weekend to sign up to an ambitious bid to create what could become the largest multi-national free trade agreement in the world.
5-Oct-2009
New Zealand Radio
The case for a free trade agreement with the United States will get another nudge this week when more than 100 leaders from both countries will take part in discussion hosted by the United States-New Zealand Partnership Forum on strengthening the economic relationship.
10-Sep-2009
South Korea and New Zealand will hold the second round of bilateral free trade talks next week, South Korean trade ministry said Thursday.
24-Aug-2009
NZ Herald
Plans to further relations between New Zealand and the Middle East are on track and a trade agreement looks close to being finalised next year, one business expert says.
9-Jul-2009
National Business Review
The start of free trade talks between New Zealand and India has been delayed following a change in India’s commerce minister since elections in May.
2-Jun-2009
Straits Times
New Zealand and Malaysia have agreed a free trade agreement, New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser said on Tuesday.
Links
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Government of NZ’ page on FTAs
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Māori collective that aims to advance and protect Māori interests in the trade space.
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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.
