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Trade talks about clear rules, investment - jobs
NZ Herald - 3 December 2012
Article by Stephen Jacobi about the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, growth and jobs...more
TPP - more trade, less conspiracy
NZ Herald - 18 October 2012
Doomsayers must see a partnership aimed at eliminating trade barriers and delivery goods cheaply...more
From Russia with love
NBR - 8 September 2012
Vladivostok may seem like an unlikely venue for this year?s summit of the APEC grouping, but the choice is deliberate..more
Freeing up global trade to create growth and jobs
Dominion Post - 15 June 2012
Increasing trade and investment is the way to get economies growing again..more
Having our cake and eating it too makes sense
Dominion Post - 7 February 2012
Having our cake and eating it too is a long-standing principle of New Zealand's external economic policy. It makes sense for a small, distant trading nation to seek equality of access to global markets and to refrain from taking sides in others' geo-political manoeuvrings...more
Realising that trans Pacific opportunity
Dominion Post - 22 November 2011
Amidst the funk of the annual APEC meetings in Honolulu were some announcements which could contribute to the country?s future economic success including the release of the 'broad outlines' of TPP...more
Natural disasters bind Japan-NZ partnership
NBR - 29 July 2011
The third Japan-New Zealand Partnership Forum met in the face of adversity, humbled by the sheer magnitude of the recent disasters affecting both countries...more
Trade policy developments look positive for this year
Stuff - 17 January 2011
'It's deja vu all over again." Those famous words of American baseball player and philosopher Yogi Berra almost came true in 2010, the year when, for the global economy, things didn't quite turn out as planned...more
Decision time for APEC
Dominion Post - 8 November 2010
Stephen Jacobi argues that it is in our fundamental interest to participate actively in APEC...more
Key visit underlines big opportunities in Korea
Dominion Post - 5 July 2010
Article by Stephen Jacobi on the importance of Korea for New Zealand...more
Budget should focus on new initiatives for growth
Dominion Post - 17 May 2010, Graeme Harrison
This week's Budget will do well to focus on new initiatives to expand export-led growth rather than just shift money around, argues Graeme Harrison...more
Europe Day 2010 - time for new engagement with the EU
National Business Review - 7 May 2010, Stephen Jacobi
9 May is Europe Day and a good time to reflect on the continuing political and economic importance of the European Union and its 27 members to New Zealand...more
Time is right for export step change
NZ Herald - 12 April 2010, Graeme Harrison
Business needs to step up and be counted in support of efforts to turbo-charge New Zealand?s export led growth argues Graeme Harrison...more
Time to focus on Europe!
Dominion Post - February 2010, Stephen Jacobi
The recent NZ/EU Trade Conference in Auckland was a timely reminder that the 27 member states that comprise the European Union are of fundamental and abiding economic and political importance to New Zealand...more
High hopes for APEC
Dominion Post - 9 November 2009, Stephen Jacobi
This week's APEC Summit is likely to see another series of strategic moves in the elaborate game of chess that is being played out on trade in the Asia Pacific region. New Zealand has much to gain from a successful outcome and much to lose from continuing stalemate in moves towards more open trade and investment in the region...more
Relationship with Japan remains critical to New Zealand?s success
NZ Herald - 29 October 2009, Stephen Jacobi
The Asian region has never exactly been a calm pond. Security challenges and a burgeoning population guarantee a degree of instability and risk. But economically the region has continued to perform...more
Spring is in the air for trade
Dominion Post - 9 September 2009, Stephen Jacobi
Most of time trade policy moves along at glacier pace but occasionally there are positive developments which while imperceptible to most have significant consequences. The last month has seen a number of these...more
Korea business forum to strengthen business ties
Dominion Post - 8 June 2009, Stephen Jacobi
At the impressive Korean War Museum in Seoul there is a moving testament to the courage and sacrifice of the 45 New Zealanders who lost their lives in the Korean War...more
Troubled times for international trade
Dominion Post, 9 Feb 2009, Stephen Jacobi
These are decidedly troubled times for international trade. There is no end in sight to the WTO's Doha round. The EU is back to its old game of subsidising dairy exports, the most pernicious of all trade policy instruments...more
New thinking, new partnership sought with Japan
Dominion Post, 12 May 2008, Stephen Jacobi
Building the business and economic relationship with Japan will be the focus of the first ever Japan NZ Partnership Forum which opens in Tokyo on 14 May...more
Priority on international business engagement
Dominion Post Business Forum, July 2007, Stephen Jacobi
Amidst the exchange rate gloom, last week's news that exporters are continuing to invest in market development was reassuring. DHL's... more
New Zealand and Japan: Qualities of a long standing relationship
Dominion Post, July 2007, Stephen Jacobi
As New Zealand and Japan reach a milestone of 55 years of diplomatic relations, there is much to celebrate in this long standing... more
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