10-Apr-2008
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters appears to have backed down on a threat to criticise the free trade agreement with China while he is overseas, promising the prime minister he will not denounce it publicly.
9-Apr-2008
The Electoral Commission will consider a New Zealand First advertisement that appeared in daily papers this morning at their next meeting.
9-Apr-2008
Foreign Minister Winston Peters says New Zealand could have done better than it did in the free trade agreement it signed on Monday with China, and that is why his New Zealand First party won’t support it.
9-Apr-2008
China’s trade deal with New Zealand has made the front pages in Beijing.
7-Apr-2008
PMC
Chinese activist groups cool on opposition to New Zealand’s fair trade deal with China. Katie Small checks out the marginal minorities’ views after the crackdown in Tibet.
6-Apr-2008
New Zealand will sign up to its biggest bilateral trade deal in 25 years in a ceremony in Beijing tomorrow.
5-Apr-2008
India should be cautious while signing free trade agreements (FTAs), specially with China as it could affect the interest domestic industry, a report released by industry chamber Assocham said on Saturday.
5-Apr-2008
TV3
Protestors in Auckland and Wellington have made a last minute plea to stop a free trade agreement between New Zealand and China.
They say the Government is ignoring human rights for the sake of selling a few pounds of butter.
4-Apr-2008
The "smog and mirrors" surrounding New Zealand’s historic free trade agreement with China is about to lift, along with remnants of the Beijing winter.
4-Apr-2008
Ngai Tahu Seafood, the lucrative fisheries arm of one of the largest Maori tribes, says the Government’s controversial free-trade pact with China is a good deal and will earn the iwi millions of dollars.
4-Apr-2008
Trade Minister Phil Goff leaves for China tomorrow to play his part in the signing of the free trade deal between New Zealand and China.
4-Apr-2008
Business leaders are optimistic that the free trade agreement with China will be comprehensive and have quicker phaseout periods for tariffs than a similar pact New Zealand signed with Thailand in 2005.
2-Apr-2008
The US and China have agreed to implement a new bilateral food safety system by initially focusing on four product categories, said FDA officials.
1-Apr-2008
In apartheid days, support for rugby tours used to be called "building bridges".
Opponents, among them today’s Prime Minister, thought sports boycotts more likely to effect change. The argument spilled into the streets in 1981.
1-Apr-2008
Shifting production of her brand to China has put more money in Cushla Reed’s pocket, allowed her to make lifestyle choices such as having a baby, and given her business a future.
31-Mar-2008
New Zealand’s free trade agreement with China is about more than reducing tariffs - it is also a strategic move which acknowledges that the emerging superpower will become the world’s biggest economy, says Prime Minister Helen Clark.
31-Mar-2008
The public is divided over the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with China that Prime Minister Helen Clark is due to sign in Beijing on April 7, a poll published today shows.
31-Mar-2008
A free trade agreement with China looks set to win the overwhelming backing of Parliament.
31-Mar-2008
Scoop
The Prime Minister has left New Zealand on a trip which will include the signing of a free trade agreement with China in the second week of April. Global Peace and Justice Auckland and Unite Union are organising a protest march to take place shortly before the FTA is signed.
28-Mar-2008
United Future leader Peter Dunne has turned down a trip to China for the free trade deal signing to protest the treatment of Tibetan people.
