By Stephen Jacobi History has much to teach us about the way trade contributes to prosperity through the movement of goods, services, people, and ideas. Today, data can be added to this web of inter-regional transactions. Yet, amidst a proliferation of trade...
By Stephen Jacobi “Twas the week before Christmas, When all through the house Not a creature was stirring, Except busy trade officials … ‘Tis the season to be “BiM-ing”* and the NZ International Business Forum has sent its Christmas wish list to newly installed Trade...
By Stephen Jacobi[1] Stephen Jacobi reports on the recent business delegation to India Every country has its contrasts and a subcontinent of 1.4 billion with thousands of years of history has more than most. Today’s India can reach the moon, build super-highways...
By Stephen Jacobi, Executive Director, NZ International Business Forum. Following the Ministers’ meeting in Auckland, what is the outlook for CPTPP as the world’s most ambitious free trade agreement? When Ministers representing the members of the Comprehensive and...
In which we like the good parts of the NZ EU FTA…. Who remembers the curate’s egg? It’s when the nervous Curate, asked by the Bishop, if everything is ok with his boiled egg, replies “It’s good in parts, my Lord”. So too the recently concluded NZ/EU FTA, which has...
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018843981/ardern-in-the-us-trade-tourism-and-talk-shows
The US idea of an Indo Pacific Framework (IPEF) continues to gain traction but is not without complications. Aotearoa-New Zealand is a great joiner – from the very beginning of the United Nations to the important economic institutions like the WTO, APEC, CPTPP and...
Will the NZ/EU FTA ever be finished, asks Stephen Jacobi. In the Monty Python film, “Life of Brian”, Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount is poorly heard by some of the crowd, but the message is passed on: “Blessed be the cheese makers”. Two thousand years later cheesemakers...
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/apec-2021-beating-covid-one-zoom-at-a-time/JJC7KTWPG5EWTEIF2X5UHLUYPA/