{"id":533262,"date":"2026-07-19T06:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T06:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/533262\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T06:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T06:21:14","slug":"new-zealand-aims-to-increase-bilateral-trade-to-nz6-million-asia-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/533262\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand aims to increase bilateral trade to NZ$6 million &#8211; Asia &#038; Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tjp-opening__txt\">ilateral trade between New Zealand and Indonesia is growing in a more balanced way and should increase in the coming years says New Zealand Ambassador to Jakarta Philip Taula.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is definitely growing. It is about NZ$4 billion [US$2.34 billion] per year at the moment,\u201d he told reporters on the sidelines of a Matariki Maori New Year dinner event in Jakarta on June 30.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is quite balanced. The total value is about NZ$2 billion from New Zealand and about NZ$2 billion from Indonesia if you include services, including tourism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taula said both countries had agreed to reach a target of NZ$6 billion by 2029.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we are on track, but we still need to keep working on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matariki refers to the Pleiades star cluster. Rising in the southern hemisphere\u2019s mid-winter night sky in late June or early July, its appearance marks the beginning of the New Year in the traditional Maori lunar calendar, the Maramataka.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMatariki offers an opportunity to reflect on the past, celebrate the present and look forward to the future with hope\u201d Taula said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ilateral trade between New Zealand and Indonesia is growing in a more balanced way and should increase in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[66806,21426,2946,5696,8705,36562,23753,191513,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-533262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-bilateral-trade","tag-cooperation","tag-dinner","tag-indonesia","tag-ingredients","tag-lunar-new-year","tag-maori","tag-matariki","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533262","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=533262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}