New Zealand’s free trade agreement with India is now in force, eliminating tariffs on 57 percent of Kiwi exports, including sheep meat, wool, coal and most forestry products.
Trade Minister Todd McClay said duty-free coverage would eventually reach 82 percent, with further reductions beginning on 1 January 2027. Negotiated in nine months after talks began in March 2025, the agreement offers major opportunities for wine exporters, with Indian tariffs of 150 percent progressively falling to 25 or 50 percent over 10 years. McClay said the deal would strengthen export diversification, expand access to India’s rapidly growing economy and support New Zealand’s goal of doubling export value within a decade.
Critics have questioned whether the agreement delivers benefits for New Zealand, pointing to significant differences in the timing and extent of tariff reductions. While Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has described the deal as exceptionally favourable, concerns have been raised that India receives immediate tariff-free access to New Zealand’s market, whereas New Zealand exporters must wait years for comparable concessions, with some products remaining subject to duties even after full implementation. Questions have also been raised about the scale of New Zealand’s investment commitments in India, provisions allowing the agreement to be terminated and mass immigration.
🚩🚩Indian FTA WTF: This 5 min clip is maybe the worst thing any real kiwi could hear. It’s the press asking Indian Trade and commerce minister Goyal and home grown obfuscating sell out Nats MP Todd Mclay.
Reporter: How much employment will it create ?
Goyal: ‘Because we can leverage the FTA, NZ has 360k Indians and it will cross 400k very soon, more and more of students will go there because (NZ) has shortage of people..I’m inviting NZ companies over to take advantage of low cost labour in India’
McClay : ‘NZ can export food to India at zero tariff IF it is to be value added in India and then re-exported (to us) .. that’s how modern trade agreements work!’
Reporter : Is the 20billion USD investment from NZ, is it hard committment or is it just an intention?
McClay : ‘The NZ govt is happy to commit to promotion of that investment, and well being NZ companies over to India to ensure well honour our trade, uh um Investment obligation’
The rest of the clip is Goyal explaining how this pile of horse manure deal benefits India, and restates NZ’s commitment to invest $33 BILLION NZD into India to HELP them modernise their industry, and help to get Indian organics and processed food into NZ.
This is as bad as WP said it would be, National, Act and Labour have thrown our kids future on an Indian funeral pyre.
— Holyhekatuiteka (@2ETEKA) April 27, 2026
The Indians starting flooding into “New Delhiland” years ago and is not about to stop, thanks to the ‘swamp’ and their FTA contract.
Reminds me of a Genesis Album
“Selling England by the Pound”
The thing is how many tracks are on this album and how long can it play out for?
Before we wake up destitute and disinherited in the land our White forefathers created?
So let me get this right… NZ can export coal, but we can’t utilize our own high calorific black coal to power Huntly coal fired power station? We import that low calorific brown coal from Malaysia!
Like salt
Production capacity is the primary structural reason not a cost crossover at Auckland at which point it becomes cheaper to import
While the customers of Dominion Salt (dairies, food processors, water treatment) may be essential, the salt production site itself doesn’t carry that designation
The main reason NZ imports coal is a grade mismatch not a lack of domestic coal
NZ produces ~2.6 million tonnes/year (mostly West Coast bituminous coal) and is a net exporter — but that coal is the wrong type for what it needs to burn domestically
Here is part of what is planned, but occurring 5 years early-on.
Note that at the end of the video New Zealand’s projected role in this shit-show!!!
NOTICE WHAT INDIA IS PROJECTED TO DO!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rST7kQtForw
It was recently admitted that NZ can produce food for 40 million people, and yet we are seeing weekly price rises in the supermarkets.
The politicians DO NOT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT YOU OR YOUR FAMILIES, AND WILL SHIP FOOD OFFSHORE WHILE WE STARVE AND GO WITHOUT!!
STARVATION IS A WEAPON ACCOMMODATED BY FERTILISER SHORTAGES, GRAIN TRAFFIC BEING DISRUPTED, AND NO OIL FOR DIESEL FUEL!
THAT is their Kalergi Plan in action alongside the Deagel Forecast, which was originally scheduled for 2025, but will now take effect in 2030, right in time for Agenda 2030!
https://allnewspipeline.com/Americans_Vaxxed_Lines_Up_Alarmingly_With_Deagel.php
https://expose-news.com/2024/03/23/distracted-princess-kate-deagel-forecast-confirmed-by-pfizer/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6uTQGaGNFk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzRHkkMjRFI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFYpPrBtB8Y
Start stocking up on supplies, and get a victory garden planted NOW!
My Party Vote in 2026?
THE NEW ZEALAND LOYAL PARTY!!!
In what crazy world does ‘Indian tariffs of 150 percent progressively falling to 25 or 50 percent over 10 years’ constitute a Free Trade Agreement?
These people are just taking the piss, aren’t they?
McClay and Luxon embarrassingly duped by the Indians.
NZFirst warned us of its treacherous implications.
New Zealand has been screwed again by idiot politicians.
And where will they be when the fruits of their ill gotten gains appear withering on the vine?
You will know them by their fruit
I don’t think we need to elaborate on that
National disgrace. Who would vote for more of this?