ISDS Case Map
New Zealand
New Zealand has proposed to have a free trade agreement (FTA) with India. It also wants that India import wine, dairy and timber products to boost the bilateral trade between the two countries to more than 616 million NZ dollars.
The moral high ground is always easier to occupy when falling from it poses little danger of sustaining serious damage. So it required little courage for MP Keith Locke, the Green Party's indefatigable foreign affairs spokesperson, to put pressure on the Government to take a stronger stand against the Chinese authorities' crackdown on protesters in Tibet.
Winston Peters wants some assurances on how a free trade agreement with China will benefit this country before he is prepared to support the deal to be signed next month by Prime Minister Helen Clark.
New Zealand has succeeded in gaining "most favoured nation" status from China in the negotiations for the upcoming bilateral free trade deal.
The National Party is taking a bi-partisan approach to the Free Trade Agreement with China which will be signed next month, and in return it is going to get a piece of the action in Beijing.
We can't separate the oppression of the Tibetan people from the preferential trade agreement New Zealand is about to sign with China.
Human rights activists will take to the footpath outside Helen Clark's Auckland office on Wednesday to protest against a free-trade deal with China.
Chinese repression of Tibetan dissidents has pushed the issue of the impending Free Trade Agreement between New Zealand and the Peoples Republic of China back into the news. In a diplomatic sidestep both Helen Clark and John Key claim that events in Tibet have nothing to do with free trade. Perhaps that is true, but there are other issues to consider.
Violent protests in Tibet have come at a very awkward time for the New Zealand government with Prime Minister Helen Clark about to sign a free trade deal with China. While other government's around the world were quick to condemn China's violent response to Tibetan protests, Clark was hesitant for most of Monday, saying she did not have enough information.
A Green MP says New Zealand cannot sign a free trade agreement with China while it continues to suppress Tibetan people.
