Twelve Pacific Rim nations have reached a deal on the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership in the American city of Atlanta, ending more than five years of negotiations to create the largest trade and investment pact since the Uruguay Round of the GATT trade agreement 20 years ago. However, New Zealand has barely prised open the door for dairy exports to the highly …

Dear TPP Welcome to New Zealand – I hope you jump the final hurdles. Those of us who have a positive approach to global commercial and cultural interaction, to sowing the seeds of free trade and economic empowerment, and who understand that, when the world doesn’t work in silos, it works better and us Kiwis actually get to work……..well, we’re …

Fonterra chairman John Mr Wilson blames entrenched protectionism demonstrated by the US dairy industry in particular for the failure of the TPP deal on dairy failed to reach its potential. “Dairy has been very hard to resolve and New Zealand has managed to get some progress against the odds,” Wilson says. ” Our team has done well to lift the …