Fast-track trade: Government signs free trade deal with United Arab Emirates in four months

Fast-track trade: Government signs free trade deal with United Arab Emirates in four months
Todd McClay says the Government is sending the signal that trade deals can be done fast. (Image: NZME)
Dileepa Fonseka
The Government has signed a free trade deal with the United Arab Emirates in record time.Minister of Trade Todd McClay said New Zealand’s negotiations with the UAE for a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) were the fastest ever undertaken. “We’re sending the signal that we shouldn’t take longer than we need to get a trade deal done.”Negotiations on the deal started in May and have concluded with the visit  to Wellington of the UAE’s Minister of State for Foreign Trade, Thani bin...

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