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The WTO is an organisation of 152 member governments that negotiate together to liberalise international trade and establish international trade rules.
Through its WTO membership, New Zealand benefits from clear trade rules that are applicable to all.
The WTO assists New Zealand in making trade deals with larger economies. With the weight of other member countries in support, New Zealand can make broader and more ambitious multilateral trade gains.
The OECD is grouping of likeminded developed countries that work to benchmark broad trade and economic policy settings.
The OECD provides a valuable forum through which New Zealand can make its voice heard on key economic and social issues. Members share a common belief that trade and investment are engines of global economic growth and prosperity, and are fundamental to the reduction of poverty.
The OECD is also a valuable source of intellectual capital and analytical work on which New Zealand can draw to supplement and confirm our own policy development process.
APEC comprises 21 Asia Pacific economies and is focussed on encouraging free trade and economic cooperation in the region.
Fourteen of New Zealand’s top 20 export markets are APEC members, and close coordination with APEC economies is vital to New Zealand’s future prosperity.
APEC assists New Zealand business by supporting trade liberalisation and promoting high-quality free trade agreements in the region.
Trade agreements between two or more countries make international trade easier and more efficient. New Zealand is committed to liberalising trade through a number of regional, bilateral and multilateral trade agreements, and seeks to strike high-value, comprehensive deals with its trading partners.
New Zealand works at a range of levels to advance economic cooperation between trading partners.
One of the Ministry's key trade responsibilities is to negotiate market access for New Zealand goods and services and to maintain and enforce that access. more
