NZIBF Executive Director Stephen Jacobi gave an address to the roundtable on CPTPP in Shanghai on 28 October.
Trade debate takes off in US – and NZ!
Remove On a rare day in Washington recently it looked as though the Congress and Administration could finally agree on something. Congressional leaders from both sides released for discussion a draft ‘fast track’ trade bill to authorise the President to conduct and...
Thank you Mr President – but no one country makes trade rules
Remove In his 2015 State of the Union address President Obama has at last thrown the weight of his office behind the trade agenda in asking Congress to grant him Trade Promotion Authority (TPA). This is seen as an essential pre-condition to the conclusion of TPP, but...
Of mountains and molehills
Remove I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – especially in the current political climate in New Zealand – public debate about trade policy is important. This website was established to provide a means of explaining the importance of trade from a business...
Are the times changing ?
Remove It’s sometimes assumed that nothing much changes with trade but a powerful new animation from NZTE and MFAT illustrates the changes in New Zealand’s export profile in the period since 1983 when we signed CER with Australia. Check it out here. The rise...
