Just as well the magi didn’t face tariffs at the border ! Here's Stephen's end of year round up! 2018 will not go down in history as a good year for trade. While international businesses struggled on, they did so against a backdrop of rising protectionism and...
On behalf of the NZ International Business Forum Stephen welcomes the announcement that the remaining 11 members of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) are planning to continue to implement TPP. See his statement on the Tradeworks site here.
This is the text of an address Stephen gave to the Asia Forum in Wellington on 7 February 2017. It’s good to be with you this evening and to have this early opportunity, as a new year unfolds, to speak about the outlook for trade and investment in the Asia Pacific...
This op ed was kindly published by The Spinoff on 16 August 2016. Trade has been described as “war by other means”. That led the US Defence Secretary in peak hyperbole to declare that the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) was as important to him as another aircraft...
Stephen is giving a number of addresses about the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the implications for New Zealand. See here for an address he gave in Nelson to the NZ Institute for International Affairs on 5 April. Other addresses are available on the Tradeworks...
Andrew Little MPLeader of the Labour PartyWELLINGTON Dear Andrew Thank you for clarifying your opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) on your recent blog post “My thoughts on the TPP” [1]. In the interests of open and respectful debate, I...
In two articles published in Idealog magazine Stephen outlines what's at stake for New Zealand in TPP. Read these articles here and here.
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.
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...