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New Zealand
New Zealand should be looking to become the food bowl of Asia and use free trade agreements to do it, according to financial services firm KPMG.
A Chinese political and trade delegation to New Zealand has been lauded as a positive continuance of a burgeoning relationship between the two countries by Trade Minister Tim Groser.
A second round of negotiations towards the Transpacific Partnership Trade Agreement (TPPTA) is taking place this week in San Francisco. New Zealand is one of eight parties along with the US, Australia, Singapore, Chile, Peru, Brunei and Vietnam, and others may join.
Key members of the United States food industry have come out in support of comprehensive free trade deal including New Zealand.
New Zealand, the world’s biggest dairy exporter, agreed to begin work on a free trade accord with Russia, the world’s largest market for butter and cheese. Any such deal will include Belarus and Kazakstan, according to NZ trade minister Tim Groser.
Meat & Wool New Zealand is anxious to see a free trade agreement with South Korea completed as soon as possible so that this country's beef trade can compete on an equal footing there.
The New Zealand government has dismissed the possibility it would scrap its drug-funding system as part of the price of a free-trade deal with the United States.
The medicines industry says reforms are likely be needed to the way the Government's drug-buying agency Pharmac operates if New Zealand is to reach a free trade deal with the United States.
Suspicions persist over a link between the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and negotiations for international free-trade pacts, despite efforts by officials to downplay the issue.
Officials negotiating New Zealand’s position on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) intellectual-property treaty say they have no perspective on the separate negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement. Nor would they be involved in any trade-off of ACTA concessions against broader free-trading rights.
