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Chapter Summaries
Chapter 2: Trade in Goods [PDF, 811 KB]
Chapter 3: Rules of Origin and Verification Procedures [PDF, 737 KB]
Chapter 4: Customs Procedures [PDF, 614 KB]
Chapter 5: Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures [PDF, 794 KB]
Chapter 6: Technical Regulations, Standards and Conformity Assessment Procedures [PDF, 782 KB]
Chapter 7: Trade in Services [PDF, 1.2 MB]
Chapter 8: Movement of Natural Persons [PDF, 534 KB]
Full text
PACER Plus consolidated legal text [PDF, 4.9 MB] (excluding Schedules of Commitments on Tariffs – Part I for Forum Island Countries)
Text by chapter
Chapter 1: Initial Provisions and General Definitions [PDF, 110 KB]
Chapter 2: Trade in Goods [PDF, 257 KB]
This chapter includes:
- Annex 2-A: Schedules of Commitments on Tariffs
- Cook Islands - Part I [PDF, 3.3 MB]
- Federated States of Micronesia - Part I [PDF, 12 MB]
- Kiribati - Part I [PDF, 2.6 MB]
- Nauru - Part I [PDF, 14 MB]
- Niue - Part I [PDF, 12 MB]
- Palau - Part I [PDF, 13 MB]
- Republic of Marshall Islands - Part I [PDF, 12 MB]
- Samoa - Part I [PDF, 12 MB]
- Solomon Islands - Part I [PDF, 13 MB]
- Tonga - Part I [PDF, 12 MB]
- Tuvalu - Part I [PDF, 12 MB]
- Vanuatu - Part I [PDF, 12 MB]
- Annex 2-B: Administration of Exemptions from the Obligation under Article 3.2 In Respect Of Regional Trade Agreements under Article 3.2(c)
- Annex 2-C: Notification of Modified or New Import Licensing Procedures Pursuant to Articles 14.1(c) and 14.2(b)
Chapter 3: Rules of Origin and Verification Procedures [PDF, 397 KB]
This chapter includes:
- Annex 3-A: Declaration of Origin Requirements
- Annex 3-B: Schedule of Product Specific Rules
Chapter 4: Customs Procedures [PDF, 125 KB]
Chapter 5: Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures [PDF, 126 KB]
Chapter 6: Technical Regulations, Standards and Conformity Assessment Procedures [PDF, 127 KB]
Chapter 7: Trade in Services [PDF, 151 KB]
This chapter includes:
Chapter 8: Movement of Natural Persons [PDF, 108 KB]
This chapter includes:
Chapter 9: Investment [PDF, 150 KB]
This chapter includes:
- Annex 9-A: Schedules of Commitments on Investment [PDF, 383 KB]
- Annex 9-B: Schedules of Commitments on Senior Management and Board of Directors Exemptions [PDF, 216 KB]
- Annex 9-C: Expropriation and Compensation
- Annex 9-D: List of Measures Not Compliant With TRIMS Agreement
Chapter 10: Development and Economic Cooperation [PDF, 107 KB]
Chapter 11: General Provisions and Exceptions [PDF, 117 KB]
Chapter 12: Institutional Provisions [PDF, 112 KB]
This chapter includes:
- Annex 12-A: Subsidiary Bodies
Chapter 13: Transparency [PDF, 99 KB]
Chapter 14: Consultations and Dispute Settlement [PDF, 159 KB]
This chapter includes:
- Annex 14-A: Model Rules of Procedure
Chapter 15: Final Provisions [PDF, 128 KB]
Annex I: Lists of Most-Favoured-Nation Exemptions on Services and Investment [PDF, 331 KB]
Related arrangements
PACER Plus Implementing Arrangement
PACER Plus Implementing Arrangement 2025-2030 [PDF, 1.9 MB]
Note: Phase II Implementing Arrangement commences on 13 December 2025 for a period of five years. It supercedes the 2017 Implementing Arrangement and 2021 Amendments to the Implementing Arrangement.
PACER Plus Implementing Arrangement 2020-2025 (signed in 2017) [PDF, 398 KB]
Amendments to PACER Plus Implementing Arrangement 2020-2025 (signed in 2021) [PDF, 363 KB]
Arrangement on Labour Mobility
Arrangement on Labour Mobility 2017 [PDF, 123 KB]
National Interest Analysis
National Interest Analysis [PDF, 1.4 MB]
Side Letters
New Zealand-Australia side letter [PDF, 210 KB]
Other Official PACER Plus Documents
PACER Plus Ministerial Communiqués
PP.MIN.007.C – 27 November 2025 [PDF, 1.5 MB]
PP.MIN.006/C – 15 November 2024 [PDF, 1.4 MB]
PP.MIN.005/C/FINAL – 26 July 2023 [PDF, 205 KB]
PP.MIN.004/C/FINAL – 27 July 2022 [PDF, 810 KB]
PP.MIN.003/C/FINAL – 30 June 2021 [PDF, 575 KB]
PP.MIN.002/C/FINAL – 18 December 2020 [PDF, 561 KB]
PP.MIN.001/C/FINAL – 13 February 2020 [PDF, 296 KB]
Press releases
- Minister of State for Trade heads to Brisbane for PACER Plus meeting(external link) 15 November 2024
- Speech to PACER Plus one year anniversary reception(external link) 13 December 2021
- New Zealand's First Trade and Development Agreement Enters into Force(external link) 13 December 2020
- Pacific trade and development agreement a reality(external link) 15 October 2020
- Samoa ratifies PACER Plus trade and development deal(external link) 19 July 2019
- NZ first country to ratify PACER Plus trade deal(external link) 24 October 2018
- Ratification of Pacific trade deal a step closer(external link) 6 September 2018
- McClay says Vanuatu signing PACER Plus an important development(external link) 7 September 2017
- PACER Plus NIA released as agreement tabled 21 June 2017(external link)
- Speech at PACER Plus signing ceremony(external link) 14 June 2017
- McClay says PACER Plus signing a historic day for NZ-Pacific relations(external link) 14 June 2017
- Ministers welcome start of PACER Plus talks(external link) 20 August 2009
- PM welcomes launch of trade negotiations(external link) 7 August 2009