It won’t come as a surprise to many people to hear that we remain in a very challenging situation when it comes to global business. Our exporters are operating in an environment that is difficult to navigate due to continuing uncertainties – the seemingly endless...
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/