{"id":13042,"date":"2025-03-17T07:01:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T18:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13042"},"modified":"2025-03-17T07:01:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T18:01:27","slug":"nz-and-india-open-free-trade-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13042","title":{"rendered":"NZ and India open free trade talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-slot text-block free-body\">\n<p class=\"content-item\"><strong id=\"strong-6e73a0dabe553d4d7ea4a915e86d5a34\">New Delhi |\u00a0<\/strong>Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has kicked off his tour of India with a bang, announcing the formal start of negotiations towards a trade deal with the world\u2019s most populous nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content-item\">On the afternoon Luxon and his sizeable business and community delegation arrived in New Delhi the Indian Trade Minister announced that work towards a \u201ccomprehensive free trade agreement\u201d would begin after Trade Minister Todd McClay and India&#8217;s Minister for Commerce and Industry Shri Piyush Goyal met.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content-item\">Luxon was effusive about the deal to start negotiating a deal, calling it a big win for New Zealand\u2019s efforts in the trade area as well as it forming \u201cpart of a desire to have a deeper and broader relationship with India, not just in the economic sphere, but also in the defence and also in the people-to-people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"breakout-slot image-block free-body\">\n<figure class=\"image-block\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"story-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/media\/images\/9Tzi8ywRz924XE3uHaD6DZ3Ef+IdbOiYlvIROR5vlqUeRrexTocZGobKRJ9od%2Fgnk3B%2FCeKTmTAsIjj6Q0YaYXiP66wCZEuBz5EpquzZggaCWG1jaaVcMoLYEpPHMsUWvUY1vWGqf7Iu9JuZwPLGsCORpRyW6t9ss4jYBCbDBZextalevdFIR+s9ZSwa+wo8obFlGIlC05SYBLjHTw4XQQ==?resolution=1240x700\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption>Trade Minister Todd McClay and India&#8217;s Minister for Commerce and Industry Shri Piyush Goyal.SUPPLIED<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-slot text-block free-body\">\n<p class=\"content-item\">\u201cThis announcement is a major breakthrough in the economic relationship between India and New Zealand,\u201d Luxon said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>stuff nz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi |\u00a0Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has kicked off his tour of India with a bang, announcing the formal start of negotiations towards a trade deal with the world\u2019s most populous nation. On the afternoon Luxon and his sizeable business and community delegation arrived in New Delhi the Indian Trade Minister announced that work towards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13044,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13042\/revisions\/13044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}