Apr 7, 2008

FTA: The Detail

The media is full of snippets of detail on the China FTA. The full text and summaries are up on a new website http://www.chinafta.govt.nz/. Kiwiblog also has a good summary (this time with the correct trade coverage).

The deal is much better than many of the critics and cynics were predicting. It is excellent news for almost all sectors. Forestry and the professional services sectors are probably the most hard done by. The latter were probably a bridge too far. We are about to post on the former.

Meantime, it is great to see New Zealand business getting in behind this deal.