Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin NZ’s export sector is getting hammered because of decisions about vaccinations and MIQ places. Some exporters have done remarkably well through the COVID-19 pandemic, but strains and cracks are starting to appear in a sector that the economy needs to be performing at its best. Government …
Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin In its May/June 2021 issue, Harvard Business Review has four articles under the heading “Understanding China.” The articles help paint a different and more positive view of what China has achieved and explain some of its more promising prospects. The magazine’s Editor in Chief states; “The …
Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin Since 2005 the EU has adopted an Emission Trading System (ETS). It is a ‘cap and trade’ system whereby European firms purchase greenhouse gases (GHG) emission allowances below a maximum ceiling that decreases over time. Allowances can be bought and sold between firms and the cap …
Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin We’ve learned to take economic forecast with a grain of salt. Especially when an exogenous phenomenon like a pandemic displays its effects with hard-to-predict geographic and time patterns. After the historic drop of GDP in 2020 (-6.1% in EU27, twice as much as New Zealand) the …
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Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin Ever Given’s blockage of the Suez Canal was the tip of the iceberg for a multitude of challenges facing global logistics and supply chains, but there is an end in sight. The ship blocked a route for six days that around 30 per cent of global …
Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin The New Zealand Scandinavia Business Association (NZSBA) was founded 30 years ago, but the relations between the two goes back much further than that, with goods and services having been traded for over a hundred years. It is the purpose of NZSBA to continue this relationship …
Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin The only Argentine President to have paid a state visit to New Zealand is Carlos Saúl Menem who died this year on Saint Valentine’s Day in Buenos Aires, aged 90. New Zealand’s exemplary bi-lateral relationship with Argentina was kick-started by Menem’s 1998 state visit which, despite …
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Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin According to Economic Development NZ’s Dr David Wilson, New Zealand can emerge relatively unscathed from the COVID-19 pandemic if businesses focus on being connected, responsive, adaptive and fleet-footed in a joined-up NZ Inc. approach. Dr Wilson’s advice is particularly relevant for the export realm. As one …
Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin Geographically Sweden is one of the biggest countries in Europe with almost 100,000 lakes and over 200,000 islands, although less than 1000 of these are inhabited. Bordering Norway and Finland and connected to Denmark via a series of bridges, it sits at the centre of Scandinavia. …
Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin Since it was first established by Mike Moore as ‘TradeCom’ in 1986, New Zealand Trade & Enterprise (NZTE) has played a vital part in the quadrupling of New Zealand’s export trade (from 1986’s $21bn to 2019’s $83.6bn) and in the post-COVID-19 world, NZTE is poised to …
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