Tim Groser has a sales job in front of him after the Trans-Pacific Partnership kept the doors open wide to foreign investment in Auckland's red hot housing market.

As dust settles on TPP negotiations, much attention will turn to analysing the full text of the agreement and understanding its costs and benefits, writes John Ballingall.

Most people will be more than aware that, like all public relations campaigns, this one will not reveal the full picture.

The main point of the TPP exercise has not been achieved, writes Bryan Gould. Tariff-free access for our dairy produce into US, Canadian and Japanese markets has been denied to us.

Editorial: Dairy products might not have gained much easier access to Japan and North America but agricultural exports are firmly in the agreement.

OPINION: Trade Minister conceded a few nasty points but his brinksmanship in TPP negotiations allows him to stare down critics, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

OECD will tomorrow release final recommendations on the biggest change to international tax rules since WWII.

Trade Minister Tim Groser says he remains 90 per cent certain that TPP talks will be successfully completed later this year.

Whole milk powder prices, which are the key to determining Fonterra's farmgate milk price, rose by 12.1 per cent to an average US$2078 a tonne.

Signs look good for Fonterra that dairy prices will bounce in tomorrow's GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) auction.

As the 12-nation trade deal negotiations enter the final stretch, Mr Key said New Zealand was gaining some support on its demands for the dairy industry.

Playing the TPP soft cop cannot be allowed to blind Groser and his senior negotiators to NZ's own interests.

The Labour Party says the undermining of Pharmac in the Trans Pacific Partnership breaches one of its bottom lines on the trade deal.

John Key admits downside to Trans Pacific Partnership but says this is unlikely to affect consumers.

Chile's no-nonsense stance on contentious trade deal sets an example for New Zealand, writes Jane Kelsey.

A local academic says a massive leak of documents shows New Zealand has adopted an "extreme" position in international trade discussions.

New Zealand and Vietnam aim to double trade to around $2.2 billion by 2020. The target announced yesterday was part of an accord between the two countries.

The rise of the Chinese economy over the past 20 years has been transformational for New Zealand, writes Bernard Doyle.

An alarming decline in food production at British farms will leave shoppers at the mercy of prices and quality elsewhere in the world, warns a UK farming report.

ExportNZ's Dialogue article in support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks failed to come to grips with the issues that matter.

Global lambskin prices have collapsed from the first quarter's record highs, as a Chinese crackdown on polluting tanneries and Russian trade sanctions sapped demand.

Both Prime Minister John Key and Opposition leader Andrew Little want to press visiting President Xi Jinping for Chinese investment that benefits New Zealand.