Australia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade, Mr Lionel Bowen, and the New Zealand High Commissioner to Australia, Sir Laurie Francis, sign the Australia-New Zealand Closer Economic Relations (CER) Trade Agreement in Canberra on 28th March 1983. (select image for more)
Closer Economic Relations
Guide to the CER
Trade in Goods
Trade in services
- Protocol on Trade in Services to the Australia New Zealand Closer Economic Relations -Trade Agreement Canberra, 18 August 1988 (PDF)
- Annex: Services inscribed by New Zealand and Australia as of 1988 (PDF)
- 1992 Review (Exchange of Letters) (PDF)
- Annex as of 1992 (PDF)
- 1995 Review (Exchange of Letters) (PDF)
- Annex as at 9 March 1999
The Regulatory Environment for Business
- Trans-Tasman Memorandum of Understanding on Coordination of Business Law (signed 22 February 2006)
- The Reserve Bank of New Zealand Amendment Act and Australia's Financial Sector Legislation Amendment (Trans-Tasman Banking Supervision) Act
- Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and the New Zealand Commerce Commission (NZCC) Co-operation Protocol
- Memorandum of Understanding Between the Government of New Zealand and the Government of Australia on Coordination of Business Law (2000)
- Memorandum of Understanding on Technical Barriers to Trade (1988) (PDF)
- Exchange of Letters Amending the Memorandum of Understanding on Technical Barriers to Trade (1992) (PDF)
- Exchange of Letters on Third Country Dumping (1992) (PDF)
Government Assistance and Purchasing
- Agreed Minute on Industry Assistance (1988) (PDF)
- Exchange of Letters amending the Agreed Minute on Industry Assistance (1989) (PDF)
- Exchange of Letters on the Agreed Minute on Industry Assistance (1992) (PDF)
- Government Purchasing
- Government Procurement Agreement (October 1997 revised) (PDF)
- Agreed Minute on State Government Purchasing Preferences (1988) (New Zealand is now a party to the Commonwealth/State Government Procurement Agreement) (PDF)
- Also see New Zealand Selected Documents Page