Jan Henderson the NZ High Commissioner at New Delhi was in Auckland recently.
The India NZ Business Council organized a breakfast meeting for its members where Ms Henderson spoke about her work in India with special reference to the FTA discussions.
“NZ has brought down the tariff on imported items to zero to all trading nations in an effort towards strengthening bilateral trade relations. We have reduced our tariffs because we believe free trade with small nations and we want to do good trade with all nations. There should not be artificial barriers. Bringing down the tariff level is also part of the negotiation with India. The FTA with India would double the bilateral trade by 2015 from the current USD 1.3 billion.”