April 2025 Introduction This submission is being made on behalf of the New Zealand International Business Forum (NZIBF), whose members are listed at...
Guest post: Hon Todd McClay, Minister of Trade In the world today, there is a divide between those countries that are prepared to set clear Trade objectives, and those who that turn towards protectionism, risking a stall to their economies. China has asserted its...
Guest Post: Barry Coates MP, Green Party's Spokesperson for Trade Trade is important for New Zealand. We need to be able to export our products and services and benefit from international capital. However, it is important that trade benefits all New Zealanders. The...
Guest post: Fletcher Tabuteau - NZ First's Trade Spokesperson NZ First is committed to trade as a way to grow the NZ economy. It is one of our founding principles and remains a core belief. Economic policy will comprise a strategy for export-led economic development...
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Guest post: Hon Todd McClay, Minister of Trade In the world today, there is a divide between those...
Guest Post: Barry Coates MP, Green Party's Spokesperson for Trade Trade is important for New...
Guest post: Fletcher Tabuteau - NZ First's Trade Spokesperson NZ First is committed to trade as a...
Guest post: Hon. David Parker – Labour’s Trade Spokesperson The NZ-China free trade agreement was...
April 2025 Introduction This submission is being made on behalf of the New Zealand International Business Forum (NZIBF), whose members are listed at Annex A[1]. NZIBF is a group of senior business leaders working together to promote New Zealand’s engagement in the...
When President Trump spoke in the White House Rose Garden to launch his wrecking-ball “fair and reciprocal tariffs”, there were some in the audience wearing hard hats. While this was doubtless to show support for the move amongst hard-working Americans, maybe...
Media release, 4 April 2025 The New Zealand International Business Forum (NZIBF) has reacted with deep disappointment to the news that the United States will implement an additional 10 percent ad valorem tariff on New Zealand exports. “The United States is a close and...
Market price support policies (aka as “subsidies”) in the agriculture sector are a classic example of what is meant by 'beggar thy neighbour'. One country attempts to improve its own economic situation by intervening in the market on behalf of its producers, at the...
Media release, 17 March 2025 The NZ International Business Forum (NZIBF) welcomes the launch of free trade negotiations with India, announced in Delhi, and is particularly pleased that these will proceed on a comprehensive basis. “There is enormous value to be gained...
Prime Minister Luxon is at last making his visit to India with a large business and community delegation. We wish them well in expanding and deepening the relationship with India. The reasons for doing so we have explained previously. Our Government’s...
Submission to MFAT by NZIBF on the proposed green economy join working group with Chile and Singapore
BRISBANE, 24 FEBRUARY 2025 STEPHEN JACOBI, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NZIBF My thanks to Anna Curzon and Stephanie Honey for giving me one last opportunity to speak to ABAC. I want to talk today about rising protectionism and proliferating non tariff barriers. It’s not a new...
Among rising global economic tension, the APEC Business
Advisory Council met in Brisbane this week to reaffirm its support for the value of trade and cooperation,
and the original APEC commitment to free, fair, open and rules-based trade.
Stephen Jacobi presented to the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Select Committee in support of the NZ/UAE Closer Economic Partnership. He emphasised the need for the Government to follow through on undertakings around paperless trade.
