The Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee is now seeking public submissions on the United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement Legislation Bill.

The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was signed between New Zealand and the United Kingdom on 1 March 2022. This bill would bring the FTA into force and would amend a number of Acts in doing so.

If passed, the bill would enable:

· the application of preferential tariff rates under the FTA

· provisional transitional safeguard measures to be applied if necessary

· the implementation of transitional quotas on dairy products exported to the United Kingdom

· the division of New Zealand’s country-specific World Trade Organization dairy quotas between the UK and the European Union post-Brexit

· the extensions of the scope of a performer’s property rights in sound recordings of their performances under the Copyright Act 1994 to include the playing of those sound recordings in public

· the increase in the investment screening threshold from NZ$100 million to NZ$200 million for non-government investors from the UK

• the implementation of New Zealand’s commitments to administer a 3-year transitional quota for apple exports.

Tell the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee what you think

Make a submission on the bill by 11.59pm on 21 August 2022.

For more details about the bill:

· Read the full content of the bill

• Get more details about the bill
• What's been said in Parliament about the bill?
• Follow the committee's Facebook page for updates

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