Key crowns APEC summit with China free-trade upgrade
By Pattrick Smellie in Lima Nov. 21 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand and China have agreed to renegotiate the historic free-trade agreement between the two countries, in an announcement at the APEC leaders’ summit in the Peruvian capital, Lima, dominated by discussion about the ba...
Key gives Facebook's Zuckerberg a serve on tax fairness
By Pattrick Smellie in Lima Nov. 21 (BusinessDesk) - Prime Minister John Key used a face-to-face meeting with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to tell him the multi-national social media platform needs to deal with its “PR issue” as a company perceived not to be paying its fai...
TPP countries gang up on US, talk 'TPP-minus-1'
By Pattrick Smellie Nov. 19 (BusinessDesk) - Leaders of Asia-Pacific countries gathering in the Peruvian capital, Lima, for an annual summit are talking up the potential to complete the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade and investment agreement "minus one": the US. Prime Mini...
Key heads to Peru for talks on life after TPP
By Pattrick Smellie Nov. 17 (BusinessDesk) - Prime Minister John Key makes a fleeting trip to Peru this weekend to attend the annual APEC leaders’ summit, having cut from his schedule a two-day trade mission to Argentina en route after Monday’s earthquakes required him to stay...
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