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Why China Matters To New Zealand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl9T5XhA2-g Stephen Jacobi explains more about the important relationship between China and New Zealand. China is our largest trading partner and second largest source of foreign investment. Not only that, but China is the largest...
A green light for the Asia-Pacific business community
Senior Asia-Pacific business representatives, meeting in the APEC Business Advisory Council under Chile’s dynamic leadership this year, are committed to achieving inclusive and sustainable growth. The digital economy is clearly going to be a key enabler, and...
What is RCEP?
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). https://youtu.be/P4A99TBNWNI Fiona Cooper explains RCEP
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If not TPP, then what?
By Stephen Jacobi for The Spinoff Trade has been described as “war by other means”. That led the...
Oh, What A Lovely War
Who spoke to whom about what in China has over recent weeks fuelled some intense speculation and...
No, this is not a Trade War
NO THIS IS NOT A TRADE WAR Stephen Jacobi[1] argues for calm when trade disputes arise. Some...
Brexit: Keep Calm and Carry On (Doing Business)?
The Big One or just a tiddler temblor? The initial dust of the British vote to leave the EU may...
RCEP COMES TO TOWN
It’s not a secret – negotiators from the sixteen member economies of the Regional Comprehensive...
Non tariff barriers – a new frontier for trade policy.
A recent report from the forest industry[1] has drawn attention to the increasing prevalence of...
TPP – a big shift for agriculture?
By Stephen Jacobi Mixed bag of immediate benefits for agriculture from TPP, but bigger changes...
TPP will be good for New Zealand – A Kiwi farmer’s view
Canterbury farmer Craige Mackenzie expresses his support for TPP on the Global Farmer Network....
Right of Reply: Why Business Supports TPP – Honestly
By Stephen Jacobi When Rod Oram said in his column last week that business leaders are being...
Business leaders submit recommendations to APEC Ministers Responsible for Trade to address the COVID-19 pandemic
APEC NEWS RELEASE Issued byThe APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) Business leaders from the Asia-Pacific are set to present to APEC Ministers Responsible for Trade (MRT) the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) COVID-19 Report, which contains the Council’s...
Remarks to Te Taumata Hui, Gisborne/Turanga
21 July 2020 Stephen Jacobi – Executive Director, NZ International Business Forum It’s great to be with you today and thanks to my friend Chris Karamea Insley for the kind invitation to join you. I feel a little out of place on a “government” panel, as I represent the...
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...
Business Forum Ready To Help Adapt APEC In 2021
Media release, 30 June 2020 “The times require us all to adapt” said Malcolm Bailey, Chair of the New Zealand International Business Forum (NZIBF), reacting today to the announcement that New Zealand’s chairing of APEC in 2021 would be done on virtual basis. “We...
Business Forum Welcomes NZ UK FTA Negotiation
Media release, 17 June 2020 The NZ International Business Forum (NZIBF) is delighted that New Zealand and the United Kingdom have launched a negotiation to conclude an ambitious, high quality and comprehensive free trade agreement. “Now that the UK is completing the...
Digging DEPA: the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement
Trade changed significantly in the years following the creation of the World Wide Web in 1990, and then again exponentially with the advent of the first iPhone in 2007. Rather than more traditional trade shipped by sea or air, “digital trade” can now be weightless,...
New Digital Agreement with Singapore and Chile a good foundation, says Business Forum
Media release, 12 June 2020 Putting in place the right trade rules for the digital economy is vital for New Zealand business in the 21st century, said Stephen Jacobi, Executive Director of the New Zealand International Business Forum (NZIBF), commenting on the...
Can China join CPTPP?
The Chinese Premier expresses interest in China joining CPTPP. This should be encouraged. “China has a positive and open attitude about joining CPTPP”. These words of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at the conclusion of the recent National People’s Congress mark the...
Blueprint for Trans-Tasman travel lodged with Prime Ministers
ANZFL Media Release - Friday 5 June 2020 An alliance of Australasian experts has lodged a comprehensive blueprint for the resumption of ‘safe’ trans-Tasman travel with the New Zealand and Australian Prime Ministers, recommending multiple layers of protection to be...
