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New Zealand’s imports of consumer-oriented food products have trended upward over the past several years.

This report lists the major export certificates and other documentation required by the Government of New Zealand for U.S. exporters of food and agricultural products.

There have been no significant official changes to the heavily regulated and cautious policies put in place by the Government of New Zealand (GONZ) for genetically engineered (GE) products.

New Zealand milk supply is continuing to slow as cow numbers decline and inputs are reduced in response to the lowest domestic milk prices in more than a decade. The 2017 milk supply forecast...

The total volume of New Zealand’s deciduous fruit exports in 2015/2016 was the beneficiary of a superb growing season in the main growing regions.

With the dairy sector in the doldrums dairy cattle numbers are still being reduced to right size herds outweighing confidence in the beef sector where farmers have increased numbers.

For 2016 New Zealand grape production rebounded strongly, up by 34%, over 2015 to be 436,000 metric tons second only to the 2014 harvest of 445,000 metric tons.

New Zealand exotic plantation forestry area resumed a downward path in CY2015 and was estimated at 1.72 million hectares in April 2015.

Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) help expand foreign markets for U.S. producers and exporters by reducing trade barriers, fostering a more stable and transparent environment for trade and investment...

Graphic illustrating the growth of U.S. agricultural exports in response to trade agreements over the past 70 years.

Dairy Farmers are now in the second year of below breakeven farmgate milk prices and have cut the national dairy cow herd number over the last eighteen months by five percent to 4.9 million head.

New Zealand deciduous fruit exports at 351,000 metric tons for MY2015/2016 are three percent greater than the previous forecast, because of an almost perfect growing season in the main growing region.