UK-New Zealand FTA Chapter 9: Cross-Border Trade in Services
Text of chapter 9 and associated annexes of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and New Zealand.
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This chapter and associated annexes outline the market access and treatment that the FTA guarantees to UK service suppliers. This provides long-term certainty and transparency for service suppliers exporting to and operating in the New Zealand market.
We have agreed a Professional Services and Recognition of Professional Qualifications annex. This will encourage regulators of all regulated professions to establish and operate routes to recognition. This will support UK professionals to have their qualifications recognised in New Zealand and vice versa. It also ensures UK lawyers can practice foreign (including UK) and international law in New Zealand using their existing qualifications.
We have agreed a sectoral annex on International Maritime Transport Services. This is unprecedented for New Zealand and will benefit UK shipping companies and ships flying the UK flag. We have also agreed an annex on Express Delivery Services that ensures UK suppliers operating in New Zealand can do so on a level playing field.
In the associated services schedules, New Zealand has locked in market access commitments. These provide greater transparency and legal certainty than New Zealand has provided in any of its previous FTAs (excluding its relationship with Australia).