In a speech to the Latin American Business Council Stephen outlines how TPP will impact on the relationship between New Zealand and Latin America especially Chile, Mexico and Peru. Read the speech here.
TPP and Latin America
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Understanding the Trans Pacific Partnership
In two articles published in Idealog magazine Stephen outlines what's at stake for New Zealand in TPP. Read these articles here and here.
NZ and Japan – an added value relationship: the implications of TPP
In a speech to the Japan NZ Business Council in Tomakomai,Japan, Stephen outlines the implications of TPP for the Japan/NZ relationship. Read the speech here.
TPP – where to from here (and how did we get here anyway?)
Read Stephen's speech to the Wellington branch of the NZ Institute for International Affairs (NZIIA) here As we look at where we have got to with TPP, we see a deal which is at last coming together in its final form. To un-pack all this today and to help explain...
Jacobi on 3 News. The TPPA ‘will benefit’ NZ exporters
Jacobi on 3 News. The TPPA 'will benefit' NZ exporters
Ending the TPP ‘endgame’
Read Stephen's commentary in the New Zealand Herald on the TPP negotiations and why they are good for New Zealand business - here. Endgame is a play by the absurd dramatist Samuel Beckett. It's also how the anticipated last hurrah for the Trans-Pacific Partnership...
Jacobi talks to Māori Television’s Media Take about the TPP
Watch Jacobi on the TPP - Media Take
Trade and resilient agri-business
Stephen spoke to the Federated Farmers' annual conference in Wellington on 2 July. Read his speech here. Resilience is about equipping farmers to survive and prosper in the face of external shocks and stresses - be they climate-related, or pests and diseases, or to...
Emerging trade agreements
Stephen spoke to the Primary Industry Summit in Wellington on 25 May. Read his speech here. I'd like to start today by asking the question - why do we seek negotiate trade agreements in the first place, especially when they seem so hard to I'll then give you a sense...