Steven Joyce doesn't want the Lochinver decision to cast a shadow over our relationship with China.

Jose Miguel Porraz is negotiating an uneven Kuala Lumpur footpath as he talks up the benefits of emerging markets.

Trade Minister Tim Groser says he remains 90 per cent certain that TPP talks will be successfully completed later this year.

Whole milk powder prices, which are the key to determining Fonterra's farmgate milk price, rose by 12.1 per cent to an average US$2078 a tonne.

Signs look good for Fonterra that dairy prices will bounce in tomorrow's GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) auction.

As the 12-nation trade deal negotiations enter the final stretch, Mr Key said New Zealand was gaining some support on its demands for the dairy industry.

Playing the TPP soft cop cannot be allowed to blind Groser and his senior negotiators to NZ's own interests.

The final negotiations of the TPP trade deal will take place this week. PM John Key said there would be "give and take", but he remained confident in the deal.

Gay Keating explains why the Trade Minister's assurances on Pharmac don't go far enough.

Chile's no-nonsense stance on contentious trade deal sets an example for New Zealand, writes Jane Kelsey.

A local academic says a massive leak of documents shows New Zealand has adopted an "extreme" position in international trade discussions.

New Zealand and Vietnam aim to double trade to around $2.2 billion by 2020. The target announced yesterday was part of an accord between the two countries.

The rise of the Chinese economy over the past 20 years has been transformational for New Zealand, writes Bernard Doyle.

An alarming decline in food production at British farms will leave shoppers at the mercy of prices and quality elsewhere in the world, warns a UK farming report.

ExportNZ's Dialogue article in support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks failed to come to grips with the issues that matter.

Both Prime Minister John Key and Opposition leader Andrew Little want to press visiting President Xi Jinping for Chinese investment that benefits New Zealand.

Sitting around the big table in Brisbane this weekend, the 20 leaders should take a good refreshing breath of the Pacific air, and drink plenty of the water.

This year's Apec has been as much a security summit for Prime Minister John Key as a trade and economic summit.

Thousands of New Zealanders rallied in the streets against a contentious trade agreement.

"Certification" seems a benign enough word. But it hides an extraordinary power that the United States is expected to assert if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is concluded.

Itell my students that my initial enthusiasm for economics was sparked by the most attractive female teacher at my school. Unfortunately they will need to find other reasons for enjoying the subject.

Shinzo Abe didn't quite throw his weight around when he met John Key at Government House in Auckland this week.