Article – BusinessDesk March 26 (BusinessDesk) – New Zealand and the European Union will look at ways to deepen their relationship, which may lead to a free trade deal, Prime Minister John Key says.
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Article – BusinessDesk Feb. 12 (BusinessDesk) Campaigners against the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations want the negotiating texts made public to help ensure the process fails, says Trade Minister Tim Groser.
Calls for TPP transparency code for destroying it: Groser Read More »
Article – BusinessDesk Feb. 5 (BusinessDesk) Electricity companies are absorbing nearly twice as much new cost as theyre passing on to their customers as the retail market for power becomes increasingly competitive, the industrys regulator, the Electricity Authority, …
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Article – BusinessDesk Feb. 3 (BusinessDesk) Pharmac, which manages an annual drug-funding budget of more than $780 million, plans to extend a three-year hiring spree after expanding in medical devices, vaccines and hospital medicines.
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Article – BusinessDesk Jan. 28 (BusinessDesk) The governments top trade priority this year will be concluding the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but Prime Minister John Keys speech for todays opening of Parliament suggests its given up on expecting to pass …
Concluding TPP govt’s top trade priority, says Key Read More »
Article – BusinessDesk Jan. 14 (BusinessDesk) The final shape of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement should emerge in the next couple of months, although how far the new trade pact will go in new generation issues such as intellectual property remains …
TPP result likely in a couple of months, says APEC’s Bollard Read More »
Article – BusinessDesk Dec. 3 (BusinessDesk) South Korea has suddenly emerged as willing would-be partner in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement, as well as announcing today it was resuming negotiations with New Zealand on a free trade deal.
Korea suddenly wants in to TPP, resumes FTA talks with NZ Read More »
Article – BusinessDesk Dec. 3 (BusinessDesk) South Korea has suddenly emerged as willing would-be partner in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement, as well as announcing today it was resuming negotiations with New Zealand on a free trade deal.
Korea suddenly wants in to TPP, resumes FTA talks with NZ Read More »
Article – BusinessDesk Nov. 8 (BusinessDesk) The New Zealand dairy industry is a decade its primary competitors from Europe in its approach to social and environmental sustainability, according to Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings.
NZ a decade behind Europe on sustainability: Fonterra CEO Read More »
Article – BusinessDesk Nov. 2 (BusinessDesk) A Labour-led government will instruct New Zealand Post to expand its fledgling insurance business to offer general insurance to compete with an industry currently dominated by foreign ownership.
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Article – BusinessDesk Nov 2 (BusinessDesk) A Labour-led government will instruct New Zealand Post to expand its fledgling insurance business to offer general insurance to compete with an industry currently dominated by foreign ownership.
Labour pledges new KiwiBank-style local insurer Read More »
Article – BusinessDesk Oct. 16 (BusinessDesk) New Zealand risks an error of historic proportions if opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership sees the country left out of a trade deal that will almost certainly encompass China in due course, Trade Minister Tim …
China warming to TPP, bi-partisan NZ approach vital: Groser Read More »
