
EU Commissioner seeks trade with NZ
Yesterday European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström, announced she would seek approval from the European Union to launch trade negotiations with New Zealand.
Stories and analysis from The Northern Express Herald.
The TPP was much more about winning a few tariff reductions, writes Bernard Hickey.
David Snell talks about international connections that bring scale, competition, investment and ideas.
Tim Groser has a sales job in front of him after the Trans-Pacific Partnership kept the doors open wide to foreign investment in Auckland's red hot housing market.
As dust settles on TPP negotiations, much attention will turn to analysing the full text of the agreement and understanding its costs and benefits, writes John Ballingall.
Most people will be more than aware that, like all public relations campaigns, this one will not reveal the full picture.
The main point of the TPP exercise has not been achieved, writes Bryan Gould. Tariff-free access for our dairy produce into US, Canadian and Japanese markets has been denied to us.
Editorial: Dairy products might not have gained much easier access to Japan and North America but agricultural exports are firmly in the agreement.
OPINION: Trade Minister conceded a few nasty points but his brinksmanship in TPP negotiations allows him to stare down critics, writes Fran O'Sullivan.
OECD will tomorrow release final recommendations on the biggest change to international tax rules since WWII.
Steven Joyce doesn't want the Lochinver decision to cast a shadow over our relationship with China.
Jose Miguel Porraz is negotiating an uneven Kuala Lumpur footpath as he talks up the benefits of emerging markets.
Trade Minister Tim Groser says he remains 90 per cent certain that TPP talks will be successfully completed later this year.
Whole milk powder prices, which are the key to determining Fonterra's farmgate milk price, rose by 12.1 per cent to an average US$2078 a tonne.
Signs look good for Fonterra that dairy prices will bounce in tomorrow's GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) auction.
As the 12-nation trade deal negotiations enter the final stretch, Mr Key said New Zealand was gaining some support on its demands for the dairy industry.
Playing the TPP soft cop cannot be allowed to blind Groser and his senior negotiators to NZ's own interests.
The Labour Party says the undermining of Pharmac in the Trans Pacific Partnership breaches one of its bottom lines on the trade deal.
John Key admits downside to Trans Pacific Partnership but says this is unlikely to affect consumers.
The final negotiations of the TPP trade deal will take place this week. PM John Key said there would be "give and take", but he remained confident in the deal.
Gay Keating explains why the Trade Minister's assurances on Pharmac don't go far enough.
Chile's no-nonsense stance on contentious trade deal sets an example for New Zealand, writes Jane Kelsey.
A local academic says a massive leak of documents shows New Zealand has adopted an "extreme" position in international trade discussions.
New Zealand and Vietnam aim to double trade to around $2.2 billion by 2020. The target announced yesterday was part of an accord between the two countries.
The rise of the Chinese economy over the past 20 years has been transformational for New Zealand, writes Bernard Doyle.