If there is one thing we have learnt from this dreadful pandemic, it is that our ability to connect and trade with the rest of the world really matters.
ADDRESS TO THE 48TH ONE STOP UPDATE FOR THE ACCOUNTANT IN BUSINESS
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What does a Biden Presidency mean for New Zealand?
In this article published by The Spinoff, Stephen assesses the impact of a Biden Presidency on New Zealand's trade interests. The American people have spoken. America’s “better angels” have prevailed. We all hope for better times ahead, but,...
Trade in 2018 – still looking for that star !
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...
Watch Stephen discuss the implications of the US/China trade war
Stephen and Liam Dann, NZ Herald, discuss the fall-out from the first shots fired in Trump's trade war:
TPP needed now more than ever
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.
Trading in an uncertain world – the post-TPP agenda for New Zealand and Asia
On 6 April 2017 Stephen addressed the World Services Group in Auckland - read his remarks on the Tradeworks website here.
Asia Pacific Integration – with or without the United States?
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...
If not TPP then what?
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...
TPP Unwrapped
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...