Media Release - 25 June 2025 The New Zealand International Business Forum (NZIBF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Felicity Roxburgh as its...
You heard it here: the sun will rise the day after the TPP signing. Contrary to wide-spread belief, the sky will not fall on 4 February, but neither will a new dawn for freer trade be with us just yet – at the very least we will need to wait until the treaty is...
OP21 in Paris showed that multilateral solutions can be found to the world’s most pressing problems – if there is political will. In contrast, expectations are low for a robust outcome from the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial meeting getting underway in...
The process of integrating key economies in the Asia Pacific region is well underway. The conclusion of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations was a big step forward. Another set of negotiations making progress but with a lower public profile is the Regional...
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A survey undertaken by ExportNZ shows the overall business outlook for exporters is positive. In...
TPP has an ambitious agenda to open up markets. For the dairy sector in New Zealand and for...
“APEC blue” they called it – not, for once, a sense of disappointment about opportunities not...
When the 21 Leaders of the Asia Pacific region and the thousands of Ministers, officials and...
With the election over it’s time for more bipartisanship on trade. Successive New Zealand...
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – especially in the current political climate in New...
It's sometimes assumed that nothing much changes with trade but a powerful new animation from NZTE...
Prime Minister Key leaves for Washington this week. He needs to take with him a strong message on...
Trade Ministers from the 12 TPP negotiating economies are meeting in Singapore 19-20 May....
Big breakthrough for exports to the Gulf – a NZ/GCC FTA 17 years in the making.
Stephen Jacobi discusses expanding CER to ASEAN, based on his remarks he gave at an ASEAN NZ Business Council agri-business event, hosted by ANZ Bank.
NZIBF is pleased to welcome the conclusion of the NZ/UAE CEPA – a useful boost for exporters at a difficult time.
Agricultural subsidies by OECD members and major emerging economies have reached the level of USD 851 billion a year. They are not only financially wasteful, they are distorting global trade and impacting negatively on the environment. Some new research casts light on this perennial problem for NZ dairy trade. We need some creative thinking to level the playing field. NZIBF Executive Director Stephen Jacobi writes a blog for TradeWorks.
Stephen Jacobi gave a geo-political, trade and consumer update at the NZ Apples and Pears Inc Conference.
Executive Director of NZIBF Stephen Jacobi discusses NTBs at the Red Meat Sector Conference.
Submission to the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Select Committee on the International Examination of the Agreement on the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity
There are very few strategic risks to New Zealand from our current levels of exposure to imports from China, concludes a new report from the New Zealand China Council, co-sponsored by NZIBF.
Stephen Jacobi gives a global economic update for the accountant in business.
2024 APEC Ministers Responsible for Trade Joint Statement
