European Union Free Trade Agreement Legislation Amendment Bill
This bill makes changes to several New Zealand laws so they line up with the free trade agreement New Zealand signed with the European Union in 2023. It updates rules about labelling clothes and shoes, sets up new quotas (limits and allowances) for selling New Zealand dairy products like butter and cheese to the EU, creates a new system for protecting European place-name food and drink labels (like Champagne or Parma ham) in New Zealand, and adjusts rules about overseas investment and import tariffs.
What this affects
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The bill puts in place the legal rules needed for New Zealand's free trade deal with the European Union to actually work, covering dairy export allowances, tariffs, and investment rules.
EU FTA means the Free Trade Agreement between New Zealand and the European Union, done at Brussels on 9 July 2023
EU FTA tariff quota means an EU FTA tariff quota listed in Schedule 5A
Destined for import into the European Union under the tariff quota for milk powders of New Zealand origin, as set out in paragraph 24, Section C, Annex 2-A of the EU FTA
Progress through Parliament
Have your say
This bill is open for public submissions to the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee. Anyone can tell the committee what they think, and you don’t need to be an expert. Submissions close 15 February 2024.
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