{"id":1311,"date":"2018-12-11T21:12:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T21:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paccon.com\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2018-12-11T21:14:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T21:14:09","slug":"1311","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paccon.com\/nz\/1311\/","title":{"rendered":"International trade: predictions for 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243;][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapman Tripp predicted some international trade events in 2017 and it fared well. The firm is now looking at what to expect in 2019 and foresees the rules-based trading system will continue to be challenged.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in a complex trade war environment. The entry into force of the CPTPP, with two rounds of tariff cuts, due by 1 January, will provide a welcome boost for New Zealand exporters,\u201d said Partner Daniel Kalderimis.<\/p>\n<p>In its recently released publication\u00a0<em><a class=\"ext\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chapmantripp.com\/Publication%20PDFs\/2018-CT-International-Trade--Trends-and-Insights%205%20Dec%202018%20(002).pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International trade \u2013 trends and insights<\/a><\/em>\u00a0Chapman Tripp discusses the pressures between key players, puts the year\u2019s key developments into the broader context of the last century, and asks what it all means for business and the New Zealand economy.<\/p>\n<p>Among other developments in 2019\u00a0the firm expects to see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increasing and important efforts by New Zealand to develop its Trade for All strategy to ensure broad stakeholder support for its negotiating agenda.<\/li>\n<li>Trade wars continuing to create uncertainty in world markets, with swings and roundabouts as the US talks to China and other partners.<\/li>\n<li>The World Trade Organisation, so critical to the New Zealand economy, at a cliff\u2019s edge.<\/li>\n<li>A return to a focus on bilateral deals as the US flexes its negotiating muscle, and<\/li>\n<li>The biggest questions on trade following Brexit remain, regardless of whether the UK House of Commons approves the Withdrawal Agreement between the UK and EU.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Trade Law Consultant Dr Tracey Epps adds, \u201cNow is the time for New Zealand and like-minded countries to pull together to ensure that the multilateral trading system comes out of this challenging period intact and even strengthened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row_empty\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> Chapman Tripp predicted some international trade events in 2017 and it fared well. The firm is now looking at what to expect in 2019 and foresees the rules-based trading system will continue to be challenged.\u201cWe are in a complex trade war environment. The entry into force of the CPTPP, with two rounds of tariff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-surcharge-nz"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paccon.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paccon.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paccon.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paccon.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paccon.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.paccon.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1316,"href":"https:\/\/www.paccon.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions\/1316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paccon.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paccon.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paccon.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paccon.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}