A CEPA between UAE, NZ is happening: UAE Minister for Foreign Trade Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi discussed with New Zealand’s Trade and Export Growth Minister Damien O'Connor deeper economic collaboration through a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between the two countries, Wam reported on Friday. Al Zeyoudi said that the two countries share a vision for boosting cooperation across key sectors including agriculture, renewable energy, and healthcare.

And two UAE CEPAs have already come into force: Two of the UAE’s CEPAs with Turkey and Indonesia came into force on Friday, Wam reports. Both CEPAs will help eliminate or lower tariffs on several goods, remove trade barriers, and pave the way for investments in priority sectors like energy, logistics, food production, e-commerce, and others. The CEPAs with Turkey and Indonesia mark the third and fourth by the UAE after the roll-out of CEPAs with Israel and India.

One more coming up? The UAE and Vietnam are also expected to sign a CEPA this year, Vietnam’s Ambassador to the UAE Nguyen Manh Tuan told Wam in an interview. “Vietnam and the UAE are accelerating the negotiation of CEPA, which shall give great impetus to two-way trade between the two countries,” he said.

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