Opposition to the TPP seems set spill over to Waitangi Day celebrations in the north.

IMF has lowered its forecast of global economic growth over the next two years amid the deepening slowdown in emerging markets.

The New Zealand forestry unit of Japan's Oji Group plans to invest $23 million to consolidate and expand capacity at its sawmilling and drying facilities in Otago.

Protesters will beseige the TPP signing despite its terms being less favourable to US interests than they feared, writes John Roughan.

The TPP is not just a run-of-the-mill trade agreement but a major concession of the powers of self-government to large, international (mainly US) corporations, writes Bryan Gould.

On February 4, the Government intends to defy popular opinion and host the signing of the secretly negotiated Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement in Auckland, writes Jane Kelsey.

New Zealand is about to have the honour of hosting the formal signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement by trade ministers from 12 nations of the Pacific rim.

COMMENT: Trade Minister Todd McClay is not an openly combative politician, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

Trade Minister Todd McClay will promote NZ's case to host a proposed secretariat for the TPP during the signing ceremony next month.

A legal dispute over the Keystone XL oil pipeline is giving opponents of a Pacific trade agreement a fresh argument to get the US Congress to kill the pact.

The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) will be signed in New Zealand next month, according to media reports.

New Zealand honey exports doubled in November as the country benefited from global demand in the $2.1 billion industry.

Lingering uncertainty about global growth and manufacturing is tipped to fuel a soft start to Australian trade when the market reopens today.

The number of people who oppose the TPP has gone down since the deal was concluded in October and the number supporting it has risen.

Former Trade Minister Tim Groser doesn't need to say he feels liberated: he exudes it.

A Whangarei pet care business said it was the first to take advantage of the new free trade agreement with South Korea.

The elimination of export subsidies for agricultural exports is a watershed for world trade that will help boost dairy prices, Fonterra says.

A series of recommendations have been made to overhaul the dairy sector after a system investigation sparked by the botulism scare.

New Zealand wholesale trade rose in the third quarter as a jump in fruit exports drove the biggest quarterly gain in sales of grocery, liquor and tobacco in more than 20 years.

A free-trade agreement between NZ and the European Union has been discussed at a meeting between Prime Minister John Key and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

NZX, New Zealand's financial markets operator, has increased the minimum volume of lots required in block trades of whole and skim milk powder futures, citing increased activity.

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare's first-half profit rose to a record $62 million.

Households and most businesses face higher power and fuel bills under proposed changes to the emissions trading scheme.

Twenty Chinese e-commerce companies have been invited to New Zealand to attend the Bank of China's (BOC) 'Building Online Distribution' event to be held on Friday.

New Zealand is boosting its development funding to the Asean region, Prime Minister John Key announced today,

Zespri and the Shaanxi Provincial Government signed a memorandum which may lead to the Tauranga-based kiwifruit marketer growing fruit in China.

The TPP signing is likely to will place in NZ next year but at Trade Minister level only - had it been elevated to leader level, Barack Obama would be coming.