22 March 2021 – Chinese companies have imported 247.14 billion yuan ($37.95 billion) worth of goods from New Zealand that benefited from tariff concessions following the implementation of the China-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in October 2008, China’s General Administration of Customs said on Monday. China’s imports of New Zealand-origin goods that received tariff…
10 February 2021 – New Zealand authorities announced Wednesday that it has asked for urgent clarification from China after Beijing halted seafood imports from the South Pacific island nation earlier this week, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reports. This comes after China Customs conducted audits at New Zealand’s two seafood factories, as the Chinese shoppers…
A businessman has been jailed for his role in the country’s largest cigarette smuggling case. The man and his company have interim name suppression and appeared at the Auckland District Court on Thursday after earlier admitting charges of defrauding customs, making erroneous entries in customs documents and selling goods without paying duties. The operation involved…
By Michael Smith Nov 11 2019 / Financial Review Shanghai | Chinese regulators are delaying the approval of new licences to Australian dairy and beef exporters looking to increase sales to China, in the latest sign that diplomatic tensions are hurting trade with Australia’s biggest trading partner. Numerous sources told The Australian Financial Review that…
By Nikki Mandow Aug 19 2019 / Newsroom This story was originally published in the New Zealand Listener and is republished with permission. Customs has cracked down on a GST rort, leaving Trade Me to pay back thousands of dollars to customers who had new cameras and smartphones seized at the border. But why was…
Friday, 28 June 2019, 12:49 pmPress Release: New Zealand Government Hon Jenny SalesaMinister of Customs 28 June 2019 PĀNUI PĀPĀHOMEDIA STATEMENT Customs arrangements with Singapore and Canada to benefit New Zealand traders Minister of Customs Jenny Salesa has welcomed new customs arrangements between New Zealand, Singapore and Canada that will streamline trade and benefit traders. The…
May 13, 2019 15:15 Mick O’Reilly New Zealand is a long way away — it’s like travelling to the end of the Earth. It’s 11 hours on a plane from Hong Kong, and even that’s another 11 hours on a plane from London. Between jet lag and changing time zones, it turns what used to…
New Zealand should be more active in participating in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) cooperation, otherwise New Zealand may miss one of the largest multilateral economic projects of this century, said an expert on Tuesday. Source: Xinhua| 2019-04-16 12:24:12|Editor: Yurou by Lu Huaiqian Simon Draper, executive director of Asia New Zealand Foundation, who attended the…
By Yolanda Redrup OCT 17 2018 / Financial Review Logistics software company WiseTech Global has made its third local acquisition in the last year, buying Sydney-based transportation marketplace SmartFreight for up to $55 million. The acquisition is the 24th for the company since July 2017, as the business aims to create “mini WiseTechs” across the…
Given the extensive and wildly enthusiastic press coverage which greeted AEC 2015, the economic cooperation agreement between the ten ASEAN nations which came into effect on Jan 1 2016, one could be forgiven for thinking that the skies across the region would by now be being criss-crossed by eager executives of the world’s largest companies,…
