Trying to quantify the gains from planned trade agreement is an exercise in futility, writes Brian Fallow. Trying to get a grip on the TPP's effects is about as easy as catching trout with your bare hands.

Here's what the international media think of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

The Government is eyeing up surplus Crown land to boost Auckland's chronic land supply shortage.

A leading American critic of the TPP says NZ should not rush into the deal as there are not the numbers to pass it in the United States Congress.

As the date for the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership in Auckland draws nearer, local and international commentators are making their views heard.

The release comes two weeks earlier than expected in a bid to counter opposition.

Sky City's been named as the location for Asia Pacific trade ministers to sign the Trans Pacific Partnership deal on February 4.

Opposition to the TPP seems set spill over to Waitangi Day celebrations in the north.

Protesters will beseige the TPP signing despite its terms being less favourable to US interests than they feared, writes John Roughan.

The TPP is not just a run-of-the-mill trade agreement but a major concession of the powers of self-government to large, international (mainly US) corporations, writes Bryan Gould.

On February 4, the Government intends to defy popular opinion and host the signing of the secretly negotiated Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement in Auckland, writes Jane Kelsey.

New Zealand is about to have the honour of hosting the formal signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement by trade ministers from 12 nations of the Pacific rim.

COMMENT: Trade Minister Todd McClay is not an openly combative politician, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

Trade Minister Todd McClay will promote NZ's case to host a proposed secretariat for the TPP during the signing ceremony next month.

The controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal will be signed into existence in New Zealand.

As we head into 2016, a trio of trade agreements signed last year will do much to grow the future incomes and living standards of Kiwis, writes Steven Joyce.

A legal dispute over the Keystone XL oil pipeline is giving opponents of a Pacific trade agreement a fresh argument to get the US Congress to kill the pact.

Lingering uncertainty about global growth and manufacturing is tipped to fuel a soft start to Australian trade when the market reopens today.

The number of people who oppose the TPP has gone down since the deal was concluded in October and the number supporting it has risen.

Former Trade Minister Tim Groser doesn't need to say he feels liberated: he exudes it.

A Whangarei pet care business said it was the first to take advantage of the new free trade agreement with South Korea.

The elimination of export subsidies for agricultural exports is a watershed for world trade that will help boost dairy prices, Fonterra says.

Even with fuel at its cheapest price in almost a decade, the ships that carry goods around the world have been cutting speed.

New Zealand should have a critical rethink about whether it's time to join those that want to get the World Trade Organisation on to a two-tier system and reinvigorate global trade.

A series of recommendations have been made to overhaul the dairy sector after a system investigation sparked by the botulism scare.

New Zealand wholesale trade rose in the third quarter as a jump in fruit exports drove the biggest quarterly gain in sales of grocery, liquor and tobacco in more than 20 years.

A free-trade agreement between NZ and the European Union has been discussed at a meeting between Prime Minister John Key and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

NZX, New Zealand's financial markets operator, has increased the minimum volume of lots required in block trades of whole and skim milk powder futures, citing increased activity.