Stephen Jacobi, Executive Director of NZIBF, traveled to San Francisco for APEC Leaders’ week and writes his thoughts on the outcome.

Let’s try that again: Happy new year!
In another year of disruption and loss there have been some surprising wins for trade. The kindest thing that could be said about 2021 is that things didn’t quite work out as planned. We did not defeat the pandemic and lives and livelihoods continued to be lost....
The sun will surely rise on February 5
Remove 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...