April 2025 Introduction This submission is being made on behalf of the New Zealand International Business Forum (NZIBF), whose members are listed at...
As part of our #ABACUnwrapped series, youth volunteer Luke Sweeney talks about volunteering at the ABAC meeting in Auckland and why it's important for young people to be involved in trade and understanding trade issues for the future. It’s important for young people...
APEC BUSINESS ADVISORY COUNCIL FIRST MEETING, BANGKOK, 20-23 FEBRUARY 2017 SUMMARY The first meeting of the APEC Business Advisory Council, or ABAC, for this year took place in Bangkok in late February. ABAC New Zealand member Katherine Rich attended and played an...
APEC Business Advisory Council - Fourth Meeting, Lima, 13 - 16 November 2016 Report to New Zealand Business SUMMARY ABAC’s final meeting for 2016 was held in Lima and culminated in ABAC’s annual Dialogue with APEC Economic Leaders where ABAC’s key recommendations for...
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As part of our #ABACUnwrapped series, youth volunteer Luke Sweeney talks about volunteering at the...
APEC BUSINESS ADVISORY COUNCIL FIRST MEETING, BANGKOK, 20-23 FEBRUARY 2017 SUMMARY The first...
APEC Business Advisory Council - Fourth Meeting, Lima, 13 - 16 November 2016 Report to New Zealand...
The Government is “refreshing” its trade policy strategy. That’s both admirable and timely. The...
Who spoke to whom about what in China has over recent weeks fuelled some intense speculation and...
The Big One or just a tiddler temblor? The initial dust of the British vote to leave the EU may...
It’s not a secret – negotiators from the sixteen member economies of the Regional Comprehensive...
A recent report from the forest industry[1] has drawn attention to the increasing prevalence of...
Canterbury farmer Craige Mackenzie expresses his support for TPP on the Global Farmer Network....
April 2025 Introduction This submission is being made on behalf of the New Zealand International Business Forum (NZIBF), whose members are listed at Annex A[1]. NZIBF is a group of senior business leaders working together to promote New Zealand’s engagement in the...
When President Trump spoke in the White House Rose Garden to launch his wrecking-ball “fair and reciprocal tariffs”, there were some in the audience wearing hard hats. While this was doubtless to show support for the move amongst hard-working Americans, maybe...
Media release, 4 April 2025 The New Zealand International Business Forum (NZIBF) has reacted with deep disappointment to the news that the United States will implement an additional 10 percent ad valorem tariff on New Zealand exports. “The United States is a close and...
Market price support policies (aka as “subsidies”) in the agriculture sector are a classic example of what is meant by 'beggar thy neighbour'. One country attempts to improve its own economic situation by intervening in the market on behalf of its producers, at the...
Media release, 17 March 2025 The NZ International Business Forum (NZIBF) welcomes the launch of free trade negotiations with India, announced in Delhi, and is particularly pleased that these will proceed on a comprehensive basis. “There is enormous value to be gained...
Prime Minister Luxon is at last making his visit to India with a large business and community delegation. We wish them well in expanding and deepening the relationship with India. The reasons for doing so we have explained previously. Our Government’s...
Submission to MFAT by NZIBF on the proposed green economy join working group with Chile and Singapore
BRISBANE, 24 FEBRUARY 2025 STEPHEN JACOBI, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NZIBF My thanks to Anna Curzon and Stephanie Honey for giving me one last opportunity to speak to ABAC. I want to talk today about rising protectionism and proliferating non tariff barriers. It’s not a new...
Among rising global economic tension, the APEC Business
Advisory Council met in Brisbane this week to reaffirm its support for the value of trade and cooperation,
and the original APEC commitment to free, fair, open and rules-based trade.
Stephen Jacobi presented to the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Select Committee in support of the NZ/UAE Closer Economic Partnership. He emphasised the need for the Government to follow through on undertakings around paperless trade.
