{"id":195503,"date":"2025-12-21T23:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/195503\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T23:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:15:08","slug":"government-strikes-free-trade-deal-with-india-rnz-understands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/195503\/","title":{"rendered":"Government strikes Free Trade deal with India, RNZ understands"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Christopher<\/p>\n

\nNew Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Hyderabad House in New Delhi earlier in the year.
\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Marika Khabazi\n<\/p>\n

RNZ understands the government has struck a Free Trade deal with India<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon promised to do so in his first term, and negotiations were formally launched in March.<\/p>\n

He visited the country for four days in April<\/a>, and Trade Minister Todd McClay has been on several trips there since.<\/p>\n

Indian media over the weekend reported an agreement had gone through the country’s cabinet.<\/p>\n

Reports have suggested negotiations were finalised in recent days, with Christopher Luxon expected to make an announcement soon.<\/p>\n

Two-way trade between the two countries currently totals about $3.14 billion a year.<\/p>\n

About $718m of that is exports from New Zealand, primarily wool, logs and apples.<\/p>\n

The prime minister’s office in a statement said he had seen speculation, but had no comment for now.<\/p>\n

McClay’s office has been contacted.<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Hyderabad House in New Delhi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-195503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}