Executive Director StephenJacobi gave a global economic update to the recent 55th One Stop Update for Accountants.
Two and a half cheers for RCEP !
Remove Image: NZ Embassy in Beijing gets a Ministerial visitor this week Ministers – including Hon Damien O’Connor from New Zealand – meet in Beijing this week to try to crunch a little known but very big trade deal. Is it still possible to conclude big new...
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...
Last train to RCEP?
Remove The huge RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership)* trade deal is one way that New Zealand can offset the economic fallout of the trade war that is developing between the United States and China. RCEP negotiators aim to reach a “substantial...
