With New Zealand Signing a Free Trade with Singapore What Are the Fuel Concerns?

New Zealand-Singapore agreement protects fuel supply

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, left, with Singapore’s Prime Minister Lawrence Wong. Photo supplied New Zealand and Singapore have this week signed a major agreement to protect the movement of essential goods such as fuel and food. The signing of the Agreement on Trade in Essential Supplies (AOTES), witnessed by Prime Ministers Christopher Luxon and Lawrence Wong, guarantees neither country will impose export restrictions on the other and form…

With New Zealand signing a free trade with Singapore what are the fuel concerns?

Analysis - Christopher Luxon will be reassured fuel will continue to flow in, but painfully aware of the trouble brewing.

NZ And Singapore Agreement Protects Fuel Supply

The AOTES establishes binding commitments preventing either government from imposing export restrictions on an agreed list of goods – including fuel, foodstuffs, construction materials, and other essential supplies.