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New Zealand and Malaysia agreed negotiate a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on 31 March 2005. This followed parallel studies by New Zealand and Malaysia on a possible bilateral FTA. Malaysia is New Zealand’s largest trading partner in the ASEAN region and our 8th largest trading partner globally (treating the EU as a single market). In the year to December 2004, Malaysia was New Zealand’s 10th largest export market taking $523m of exports, and our 10th largest import source supplying $843m of imports. Malaysia is also a significant market for New Zealand services exports.
Negotiations for the bilateral FTA between Malaysia and New Zealand support our joint engagement in the broader ASEAN process.
For background information and relevant documents, please see the Malaysia FTA document archive.
