Proposed Free Trade Agreements
New Zealand is negotiating bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements with the following countries and blocs:
- The Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership, a multilateral trade agreement involving 4 countries with which New Zealand has existing trade agreements - Malaysia, Brunei, Chile, Singapore, and Australia - and nations with which New Zealand does not have an existing FTA:
- United States: New Zealand–United States Free Trade Agreement
- Peru: Negotiating alongside the United States, Australia and Vietnam to join the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership
- Vietnam: Negotiating alongside the United States, Australia and Peru to join the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership
- Japan: Conducting feasibility study as of (14 May 2008)
- South Korea: New Zealand-South Korea Free Trade Agreement
- Gulf Cooperation Council: (2006/07)
- India India–New Zealand Free Trade Agreement - negotiating since 2007 with the establishment of a JSG (Joint Study Group) looking at the feasibility of an Indian-NZ FTA.
- Russia Russia-Kazakhstan-Belarus Free Trade Agreement - negotiating since 2010
- Kazakhstan Russia-Kazakhstan-Belarus New Zealand Free Trade Agreement - negotiating since 2010
- Belarus Russia-Kazakhstan-Belarus Free Trade Agreement - negotiating since 2010
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