ISDS Case Map
New Zealand
Business leaders are optimistic that the free trade agreement with China will be comprehensive and have quicker phaseout periods for tariffs than a similar pact New Zealand signed with Thailand in 2005.
In apartheid days, support for rugby tours used to be called "building bridges".
Opponents, among them today's Prime Minister, thought sports boycotts more likely to effect change. The argument spilled into the streets in 1981.
Shifting production of her brand to China has put more money in Cushla Reed's pocket, allowed her to make lifestyle choices such as having a baby, and given her business a future.
New Zealand's free trade agreement with China is about more than reducing tariffs - it is also a strategic move which acknowledges that the emerging superpower will become the world's biggest economy, says Prime Minister Helen Clark.
The public is divided over the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with China that Prime Minister Helen Clark is due to sign in Beijing on April 7, a poll published today shows.
A free trade agreement with China looks set to win the overwhelming backing of Parliament.
The Prime Minister has left New Zealand on a trip which will include the signing of a free trade agreement with China in the second week of April. Global Peace and Justice Auckland and Unite Union are organising a protest march to take place shortly before the FTA is signed.
United Future leader Peter Dunne has turned down a trip to China for the free trade deal signing to protest the treatment of Tibetan people.
The Greens are citing past experience as a warning against the upcoming free trade deal with China.
China is holding off giving final approval for a free-trade pact with New Zealand.
