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New Zealand
India and New Zealand have agreed to study the potential for a free trade agreement between the two countries.
New Zealand has agreed to study the potential for a free trade agreement with India, Trade Minister Phil Goff said at the weekend.
India and New Zealand have initiated steps to ink a free trade agreement (FTA) but it could be a while before this becomes a reality.
New Zealand exports to Thailand have risen strongly since the two countries signed a free trade deal in 2005.
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has been lobbying United States politicians to gain their support for free-trade talks, despite his party's scepticism over such deals in the past.
Last night's exclusion of an accredited journalist from a Beehive photo opportunity with the Michael Cullen and the Deputy Premier of China Zeng Peiyan, because Chinese officials thought the journalist was a “problem”, shows that the Government is so desperate for a trade deal with China that it will sacrifice free speech in New Zealand to get it, says the Green Party.
New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said Tuesday New Zealand is willing to promote a free trade agreement with China as early as possible.
It was a comment to send a thrill down the spine of rural New Zealand: Democrats, on the centre-left of American politics, traditionally the more sceptical party when it comes to free trade, expressing "long-standing support" for a free trade deal between the US and New Zealand.
Here's my take on what really went down when Helen Clark met George Bush at the White House. The big international agenda - those issues that are really central to the security of the Western world, such as Iraq - was on the table.
Prime Minister Helen Clark has left Washington claiming a successful visit, despite failing to gain any new commitments on trade or on future military cooperation.
