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The New Zealand–China Free Trade Agreement is a bilateral free trade agreement signed between the People's Republic of China and New Zealand in April 2008. It is the first free trade agreement that China has signed with any developed country, and New Zealand's largest trade deal since the 1983 Closer Economic Relations agreement with Australia. [1]
WELLINGTON (Reuters) -New Zealand and China on Thursday signed agreements on trade and climate change, with human rights also on the agenda, during a trip by Premier Li Qiang, the highest level ...
Chile, China-Chile Free Trade Agreement (2006) Pakistan, China-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement (2006) [14] New Zealand, China-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (2008) [15] Singapore, China-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (2009) ASEAN, China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (2010) Republic of China (Taiwan), Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (2010)
The free trade agreement with China is New Zealand's most significant since the Closer Economic Relations agreement with Australia was signed in 1983. It was also the first time China has entered into a comprehensive free trade agreement with a developed country. [49]
New Zealand was the first developed country to sign a free trade agreement with China in 2008, with the imports of milk powder subjected to the longest phase-out.
Two weeks ago after announcing his trip to China, Hipkins told New Zealand media the government had signed seven new or upgraded free-trade agreements as "part of our really concerted effort to ...
Since the 1990s, New Zealand has pursued free trade agreements as part of international trade policy with a goal (as of 2024) of 90% of exports covered by FTAs by 2030. [5] [6] New Zealand signed bilateral free trade agreements throughout the Asia-Pacific region through the 2000s including with significant trading partners China and the ASEAN bloc.
Following the signing of the RCEP, New Zealand and China signed a deal to further expand their existing free-trade agreement. The expanded deal provides for tariffs to be either removed or cut on many of New Zealand's mostly commodities-based exports, ranging from dairy to timber and seafood, while compliance costs will also be reduced.