Executive Director StephenJacobi gave a global economic update to the recent 55th One Stop Update for Accountants.
Trade in 2018 – Still looking for that Star
Remove Just as well the magi didn’t face tariffs at the border 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 all-out trade war between the world’s two...
Trade agreements: good things come in threes
Remove This has been a hectic but productive week for New Zealand trade policy, with Parliamentary ratification of two important agreements – the Asia-Pacific mega-regional CPTPP, and the Pacific-focused PACER Plus agreement – and a negotiating session for a third big...
Does Trade War loom? Nerves of Steel.
Remove Stephanie Honey comments on the latest threat to the world trading system. On the eve of the signing of the CPTPP, among the biggest FTAs in the world, the global temperature on trade has rapidly moved towards “trade war” setting. On 1 March, President Trump...
The CPTPP Countdown is On
Remove NZIBF Director Stephen Jacobi appeared on The AM Show yesterday morning, in the countdown to the CPTPP (Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership) agreement being signed on Thursday 8 March. The final text of the CPTPP is available here. Stephen...
