The Minister of Commerce of China, Wang Weitao, met McLele, New Zealand Trade Minister McLele on Sunday (February 25) that China is willing to implement a free trade agreement with New Zealand.

The Chinese Ministry of Commerce announced on the official website that Wang Wentao met with McLeley on Abu Dhabi, UAE.The two sides exchange opinions on the exchange of economic and trade relations between the two countries, the 13th Ministerial Meeting of the WTO, and the exchange of bilateral and regional economic and trade issues that they care about.

Wang Wentao said that China is willing to implement a free trade agreement with New Zealand and continue to strengthen cooperation in the process of joining the process of comprehensively and progressing with the process of comprehensively and progressing the cross -Pacific partnership agreement and the digital economic partnership agreement.

China -New Zealand Free Trade Agreement was signed on April 7, 2008, and implemented on October 1 of the same year.

The two countries launched the upgrade negotiations of the Free Trade Agreement in November 2016, and signed a letter of upgrading the China -New Zealand Free Trade Agreement on January 26, 2021.The upgrade protocol was officially effective in 2022.