Labour's Phil Goff is back in business, adding his strong and rational voice to New Zealand's advocacy for the completion of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP).

A trade agreement which New Zealand is champing at the bit to sign promises billions of dollars in extra export earnings and thousands of new jobs, according to the minister in charge, Tim Groser.

Prime Minister John Key met the French parent company of infant milk brand Nutricia to discuss the Fonterra botulism scare while he was in Paris this week.

New Zealand has halted all apple exports to China for the rest of the season after rot was found in several batches at the Chinese border.

Wouldn't it be great if New Zealand was a brand just like a Mars Bar?

Government planning to relax the rules on bringing in feature films but is extending ban on parallel imports.

Prime Minister John Key is hoping that Britain will help New Zealand get its toes into the European Union for free trade agreement talks - something that has so far eluded it while the EU has focused on other countries.

The kindest view you could have of the emissions trading scheme, what's left of it, is that it is a brutally pruned seedling barely surviving in frozen ground.

Prime Minister John Key has seized on David Cunliffe's reticence about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks to accuse him of taking Labour to the far left at the behest of unions and to talk up TPP.