Access the Free Trade Agreement text, National Interest Analysis, and other resources.
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The Text of the Agreement contains commitments on Goods, Services, Government Procurement, Movement of Business People, Rules of Origin, Customs Cooperation, Trade Remedies, Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures, Technical Barriers to Trade, Intellectual Property, Competition, Electronic Commerce, Dispute Settlement, and General Exceptions.
Media and resources
- Text of the Agreement - NZ HK CEP [PDF 1 MB]
- Annex 1 – Hong Kong Tariff Schedules headnote [PDF 11 KB]
- Annex 2 – Hong Kong Tariff Schedules [PDF 676 KB]
- Annex 3 – New Zealand Tariff Schedules (Correct Margins) [PDF 600 KB]
- Annex 4 – New Zealand Tariff Schedules [PDF 600 KB]
- Annex 5 – Annex to chapter 4 (Rules of Origin) - Headnote - Product specific rules of origin [PDF 625 KB]
Tariff schedules in HS2012
Other instruments
- Implementing Arrangement Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures [PDF 399 KB]
- Implementing Arrangement Product Specific Rules of Origin [PDF 339 KB]
- Implementing Arrangement Government Procurement [PDF 276 KB]
- GP ANNEX I [PDF 51 KB]
- Exchange of Letter GP Annex I HKC [PDF 395 KB]
- GP HKC NZ Amendments to Annex I [PDF 129 KB]
- GP ANNEX III [PDF 61 KB]
- Exchange of Letter GP Annex III HKC [PDF 326 KB]
- GP ANNEX IV [PDF 64 KB]
- Exchange of Letter GP Annex IV HKC [PDF 566 KB]
- New Zealand – Hong Kong, China Environment Cooperation Agreement [PDF 35 KB]
- Memorandum of Understanding on Labour Cooperation between New Zealand and Hong Kong, China [PDF 32 KB]
- Exchange of Letters on the Conclusion of an Investment Protocol to the CEP [PDF 23 KB]
- Exchange of Letters on Most Favoured Nation Treatment Reservations [PDF 16 KB]
- Exchange of Letters on Review of Movement of Business Persons Commitments [PDF 17 KB]
- New Zealand Letter on the Review of the Screening Threshold for the Overseas Investment Regime [PDF 11 KB]
- Rules of Origin Exchange of Letters [PDF 82 KB]
- National Interest Analysis: Assesses the impact of the CEP on New Zealand [PDF 841 KB]
- Introductory Guide to the CEP [PDF 1.1 MB]
- Key Outcomes: Summary of Key Outcomes of the CEP [PDF 184 KB]
Statements and reviews
- General Review of the New Zealand Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership [PDF 663 KB]
- Joint Ministerial Statement on the General Review of the New Zealand Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership [PDF 63 KB]
- Second General Review of the New Zealand Hong Kong China Closer Economic Partnership [PDF 907 KB]