UK-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement
Business guidance, explainers and other documents to help you understand the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the UK and New Zealand.
The UK signed a free trade agreement with New Zealand on 28 February 2022. Negotiations were launched on 17 June 2020.
Business guidance
You can:
- find practical information on how to use the free trade agreement
- get advice on how to export on great.gov.uk
- learn more about rules of origin
- find the relevant duty rates and commodity codes for your goods in our check duties and customs procedures for exporting goods and trade tariff tools
- get help by asking the export support team a question
Explainers
Treaty information
Read the agreement documents to understand what the agreement covers and how it might apply to your business.
Reports
Correspondence
Negotiating the trade agreement
Learn about how our negotiations with New Zealand progressed.
Public engagement
The public are able to raise matters in relation to the implementation of environment and labour chapters of the UK-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement.
The government engages with stakeholders to make sure their views inform the UK’s trade policy and negotiations.
Before the start of negotiations with New Zealand, we held a 14-week public consultation on a potential future trade agreement in 2018. This was supported by a series of events around the UK.
Engagement continued throughout the negotiations using the Strategic Trade Advisory Group and a network of Trade Advisory Groups. These support the development of our trade policies and negotiations.
We held a 14-week public consultation on a potential future trade agreement with New Zealand in 2018. This was supported by a series of events around the UK.
Trade with New Zealand
DBT produces a factsheet presenting the latest statistics on trade and investment between the UK and New Zealand.
Committee documents
Minutes and meeting summaries from UK-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (FTA) committees and working groups.
Updates to this page
Published 20 October 2021Last updated 12 November 2024 + show all updates
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A link to collated committee and working group documents added to the page.
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Public submissions on environment and labour FTA chapters added to the 'publication engagement' section of the collection page.
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'Origin status and reduced rate of customs duty' guidance added to the business guidance section of the collection page.
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Reports section added to collection. New links to Trade Bill explainer, S42 report, and TAC report added.
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Addition of Trade and Agriculture Commission (TAC) correspondence to collection page.
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Collection updated to link to UK-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement text, associated documents, impact assessment, treaty explainer content and press release.
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