Market Access

Importers

 

Our trade agreements

Agreements in force

• New Zealand-Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership (NZ-HKG CEP entered into force 1 January 2011)
• New Zealand-Malaysia Free Trade Agreement (MNZFTA entered into force 1 August 2010)
• ASEAN-Australia NZ Free Trade Agreement (AANZFTA signed but not yet in force) - 2010
• New Zealand- China Free Trade Agreement (China-NZ FTA) - 2008
• Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (P4) - 2005
• New Zealand and Thailand Closer Economic Partnership (NZTCEP) - 2005
• New Zealand and Singapore Closer Economic Partnership (NZSCEP) - 2001
• Australia and New Zealand Closer Economic Relations (CER) - 1983
• New Zealand-Australia Closer Economic Relations Investment Protocol (CER IP) (subject to Parliamentary Treaty Examination, expected to enter into force in the second half of 2011).

Agreements under negotiation

• Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA concluded but not yet signed)
• New Zealand and Gulf Cooperation Council Free Trade Agreement (NZ-GCC FTA concluded but not yet signed)
• Expansion of the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (TPP partners Australia/Brunei/Chile/New Zealand/Peru/Singapore/Malaysia/United States of America/Vietnam)
• New Zealand and Korea Free Trade Agreement (NZ-Korea FTA)
• New Zealand-India Free Trade Agreement (NZ-India FTA)
• New Zealand-Russia-Belarus-Kazakhstan Free Trade Agreement (NZ-RBK).

Import rules and regulations

• Strategic goods including Firearms.
• Customs department - information for importers [external link].

Importation of chemicals

The Chemical Weapons Convention requires controls on the import of a range of chemicals that can be used as chemical weapons or in the production of chemical weapons.

• Chemical Weapons Convention - information.
• Application form to import scheduled chemicals.

Tariff information

• The Customs Department administers the New Zealand tariff regime and has on its website the Working Tariff Document of New Zealand [external link].
• The Ministry of Economic Development provides policy advice on the New Zealand tariff regime [external link].

Legal issues

Copyright, intellectual property, trademarks etc.

• The Customs Department website has information on importing trade-marked goods [external link].
• The Ministry of Economic Development has policy information on the intellectual property regime relating to importing goods into New Zealand [external link].

More import help online

• The Business Information Zone (biz) website has a wide range of information for importers [external link].
• The Ministry for Economic Development has information about building business capability [external link].

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