GENERAL REVIEW OF THE COMPREHENSIVE AND PROGRESSIVE AGREEMENT FOR TRANS- PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP (CPTPP) DECEMBER 2023 Summary This submission is made...
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GUEST POST: Business gears up for APEC 2021
Rachel Taulelei, CEO of Kono and ABAC Chair for 2021 looks at how business can contribute and prepare for APEC 21 which the Government has announced will be held on virtual digital platforms. Tēnā koutou katoa In these unpredictable times it is challenging to think...
Wanted: WTO Director General: Herculean qualities a plus.
The World Trade Organisation’s system of global trade rules has helped to lift millions from poverty and underpinned seventy years of global prosperity. As WTO members consider candidates for a new Director General this week, however, the WTO faces a crisis of...
Free trade between New Zealand and the UK – coming soon?
What role can New Zealand play with “global Britain”? If negotiations beginning this week are successful, New Zealand’s economic relationship with the United Kingdom could be returned to something more open and dynamic, if not completely like things were in a dimly...
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Better Jobs and Opportunities for All
ABAC (APEC Business Advisory Council) met in Auckland for four days in February 2018. Hosted by...
What is ABAC? Stephen Jacobi explains.
Tradeworks executive director Stephen Jacobi explains why TPP negotiations across 11 countries can...
What does inclusive growth mean for SMEs in the Asia Pacific?
Guest post from Tenby Powell, Director of Hunter Powell Investments and New Zealand member of the...
Guest post: Trade, the digital economy, empowering women and small business: Asia-Pacific priorities
Guest post from Katherine Rich, CEO of the New Zealand Food and Grocery Council and New Zealand...
The Spinoff: The reborn TPP shows progressive trade policy has real currency
This article was written by NZIBF Director Stephen Jacobi for The Spinoff. You can see the...
Looking forward, looking back
A new government, a renamed TPP, ongoing squabbles about Brexit, a nascent NZ/EU trade agreement...
It takes 164 to tango: the 11th WTO Ministerial Meeting in Buenos Aires
In a few days’ time, Trade Ministers from the 164 WTO member-countries will meet in Buenos Aires;...
Making Trade Comprehensive and Progressive Again
Like the fabled phoenix rising from the ashes, a revised TPP, the ‘Comprehensive and Progressive...
Guest post: Future-casting the Asia-Pacific: November APEC meetings in Vietnam
Guest post from Katherine Rich, CEO of the New Zealand Food and Grocery Council and New Zealand...
High Noon For The NZ/UK FTA
What are the prospects for a strong outcome from the NZ/UK FTA negotiation?
APEC BUSINESS ADVISORY COUNCIL REMARKS TO THE APEC MINISTERIAL MEETING ON FOOD SECURITY
By Rachel Taulelei - ABAC Chair 2021 Minister O’Connor, Ministers, Heads of Delegation Food security is a critical topic. APEC has a broad and ambitious agenda as we seek to make the Putrajaya Vision a reality. But at the most basic level, if our people go...
SPEAKING BUSINESS TRUTH TO APEC POWER
By Rachel Taulelei, ABAC Chat 2021 What is needed to get the APEC region humming again? If I had to choose an Olympic sport to describe running a global business these days, it would be trampolining, with the wild highs and lows. Finding ways to improve that business...
Shared problems need shared solutions – starting now, say Asia-Pacific business leaders
Working together – as APEC Economic Leaders demonstrated recently – to find coherent, timelysolutions to complex global challenges are the only way the region will continue to thrive, the APECBusiness Advisory Council (ABAC) declared today during their third virtual...
Remarks by Rachel Taulelei to Hugo Group, Wellington, 3 August
Address to the Hugo Group Wellington, 3 August
APEC Economic Leaders’ Statement Overcoming COVID-19 and Accelerating Economic Recovery
Issued by the APEC Informal Leaders' Retreat Wellington, New Zealand, 16 July 2021 We, the APEC Economic Leaders met on 16 July 2021 to discuss the COVID-19 health and economic crisis and response. The pandemic continues to have a devastating impact on our region’s...
Remarks to India NZ Business Summit
The Future of Trade Agreements and How Will They Differ From Today?
Wanted! New FTA partners
Media release, 29 June 2021 New research commissioned by the NZ International Business Forum (NZIBF) identifies options for New Zealand’s next tranche of trade negotiations. “Trade is the country’s lifeblood and trade has boosted the economy during the pandemic,” says...
Wanted! New FTA Partners
Identifying options for New Zealand’s next tranche of trade negotiations
Wanted! New FTA Partners
New research commissioned by the NZ International Business Forum (NZIBF) identifies options for New Zealand’s next tranche of trade negotiations.
