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UK-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement

Business guidance, explainers and other documents to help you understand the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the UK and New Zealand.

Updates to this page

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Department for Business and Trade
Published:
20 October 2021
Last updated:
26 June 2025
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  1. 'UK-New Zealand FTA: gender mainstreamed provisions' added to business guidance section of collection page.

  2. A link to collated committee and working group documents added to the page.

  3. Public submissions on environment and labour FTA chapters added to the 'publication engagement' section of the collection page.

  4. 'Origin status and reduced rate of customs duty' guidance added to the business guidance section of the collection page.

  5. Reports section added to collection. New links to Trade Bill explainer, S42 report, and TAC report added.

  6. Addition of Trade and Agriculture Commission (TAC) correspondence to collection page.

  7. Collection updated to link to UK-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement text, associated documents, impact assessment, treaty explainer content and press release.

  8. First published.

The UK signed a free trade agreement with New Zealand on 28 February 2022. Negotiations were launched on 17 June 2020.

Business guidance

You can:

Explainers

Treaty information

Read the agreement documents to understand what the agreement covers and how it might apply to your business.

Reports

Correspondence

Negotiating the trade agreement

Learn about how our negotiations with New Zealand progressed.

Public engagement

The public are able to raise matters in relation to the implementation of environment and labour chapters of the UK-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement.

The government engages with stakeholders to make sure their views inform the UK’s trade policy and negotiations.

Before the start of negotiations with New Zealand, we held a 14-week public consultation on a potential future trade agreement in 2018. This was supported by a series of events around the UK.

Engagement continued throughout the negotiations using the Strategic Trade Advisory Group and a network of Trade Advisory Groups. These support the development of our trade policies and negotiations.

We held a 14-week public consultation on a potential future trade agreement with New Zealand in 2018. This was supported by a series of events around the UK.

Trade with New Zealand

DBT produces a factsheet presenting the latest statistics on trade and investment between the UK and New Zealand.

Committee documents

Minutes and meeting summaries from UK-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (FTA) committees and working groups.

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