{"id":129980,"date":"2025-09-09T10:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/129980\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T10:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:26:12","slug":"fiji-seeks-to-close-800m-trade-gap-with-new-zealand-fbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/129980\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiji seeks to close $800m trade gap with New Zealand \u2013 FBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/TRADE.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fiji is dealing with a huge trade imbalance with New Zealand, exporting just $136.85 million while importing over $1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>It is creating a deficit exceeding $800 million.<\/p>\n<p>Trade Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Manoa Kamikamica said the visit to Wellington aims to rebalance trade, not just observe existing business ties.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He stressed the goal of doubling trade to NZD 2 billion, a target agreed by both Prime Ministers.<\/p>\n<p>Kamikamica highlighted that a joint roadmap from Fiji and New Zealand\u2019s business councils is now in place.<\/p>\n<p>He said it was time to move from discussion to action to close the trade gap and boost Fiji\u2019s exports.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"viti-plus-link-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.viti.plus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stream the best of Fiji on VITI+.  Anytime.  Anywhere.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fiji is dealing with a huge trade imbalance with New Zealand, exporting just $136.85 million while importing over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-129980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}