Stephen Jacobi, Executive Director of NZIBF, traveled to San Francisco for APEC Leaders’ week and writes his thoughts on the outcome.
Making sense of the TPP end game
Remove There’s an old Peggy Lee song – “If that’s all there is, then let’s keep dancin’”. That essentially was how the TPP negotiations ended up in Maui. The deal on the table was insufficient so Ministers decided to keep on talking. How did this happen? Going into...
Korea FTA done, now on to TPP
Remove The signing of New Zealand’s FTA with Korea is another “brick in the wall” for New Zealand’s FTA coverage in Asia. Now only Japan and India are missing. But that analogy is not quite right – FTAs are meant to break down walls aren’t they? The agreement with...
