Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will travel to China next week where he will discuss with his Chinese counterpart how the two countries can work together for mutual benefit in the Pacific.  Peters will meet Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi for talks on a number of issues. Peters told reporters today his four-day visit had been a priority for some time but until now it had not been possible.

New Zealand exporters risk being shut out of the US market because of the Government inaction, given it’s made no effort to build a relationship with its US counterpart, National’s Trade spokesperson Todd McClay says. "New Zealand continues to be on the receiving end of trade restrictions imposed by the US, having been denied an exemption on steel tariffs which were offered to a number of other countries, and now the US wants New Zealanders to pay more for drugs. "US President Donald Trump has announced that the US will be negotiating with countries including New Zealand to pay more…

Trade Minister David Parker says trade tensions and growing protectionism had made it a difficult period for New Zealand to navigate global trade. #trade

For us in New Zealand, we look around and see Australian and the Pacific. In India, looking west means looking to Pakistan and looking north means …

Paperwork needed to finish a Saudi agrihub project was located more than three years after 900 pregnant ewes were flown from New Zealand writes NZHerald political reporter, Nicholas Jones ,in today's Herald.

New Zealand exporters which sent $120m of goods to Iran last year may be affected by US president Donald Trump's threat to sanction countries who trade with the Middle Eastern nation.

This month Beingmate Baby & Child Food Co reported a net loss of $230 million for 2017, bigger than expected. Fonterra owns 18.8% of the company, …

Kiwi food producer Smartfoods has signed a $4.5 million sourcing deal with Alibaba to supply it with Vogel's cereal to be sold to consumers in China. Alibaba will sell the product through its various e-commerce channels including through popular online marketplace Tmall over the next 12 months.

Richard Maru, who is in New Zealand this week, said any trade deal has to be on a win-win basis and not likethe PACER-Plus regional trade deal which PNG opposes. He said there are many PNG products which the country has struggled to get into Australia and New Zealand markets, partly because …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Record exports trimmed the U.S. trade deficit in March, the first drop in seven months in a massive gap that President Donald Trump is determined to shrink with an aggressive America first policy. The Commerce Department says the trade deficit — the difference between what …

Wellington / WAM His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, met Winston Peters, New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs.