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New Zealand is also committed to the negotiation and utilisation of international standards that create sustainable growth. (...)

New Zealand's approach to trade and environment complements and supports international environmental commitments such as those made at the Earth Summit (1992), the World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002), the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (2012), the development of the Sustainable Development Goals and in relevant multilateral environment agreements.

On 1 October 2008, New Zealand's FTA with China entered into force – China's first FTA with a developed country. (...) Additional binding agreements on labour and environment cooperation have been signed, providing further possibilities for cooperation and capacity building.

The Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement, which has been known as P4, is an FTA between New Zealand, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, and Singapore. (...) The agreement promotes cooperation on customs procedures, intellectual property and competition policy, and the members of P4 also became party to binding agreements on environment cooperation and labour cooperation. (...)

(...) Labour and environment arrangements were negotiated in parallel with the CEP (New Zealand's Closer Economic Partnership with Thailand). (...)

The New Zealand-Korea FTA was signed on 23 March 2015. (...) The FTA also includes substantive chapters on labour and environment.

New Zealand's Free Trade Agreement with Malaysia was signed in October 2009 and has liberalised and facilitated trade in goods, services and investment between the two countries. It contains measures to improve business flows and promote cooperation in a broad range of economic areas of mutual interest and is supported by agreements on trade and the environment and trade and labour matters. (...)

The agreement (New Zealand-Malaysia Free Trade Agreement) contains measures to improve business in various economic areas of mutual interest and is supported by agreements on trade and the environment and trade and labour matters. It liberalizes and facilitates trade in goods, services and investment between New Zealand and Malaysia, and goes beyond the commitments made in the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (AANZFTA) signed in February 2009.

New Zealand's Closer Economic Partnership Agreement with Hong Kong, China was signed in March 2010 and entered into force on 1 January 2011. (...) The agreement contains measures to improve business flows and promote cooperation in a broad range of economic areas of mutual interest, and is supported by legally-binding side agreements on labour and the environment.

New Zealand considers this RTA (New Zealand-Hong Kong, China Closer Economic Partnership Agreement) as an important way to boost trade with Hong Kong, China and take further advantage of growing opportunities in the region. The deal is also seen as a complement to New Zealand's Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with China. It contains measures to improve business flows and promote cooperation in a broad range of economic areas of mutual interest, and is supported by legally-binding side agreements on labour and environment that are in line with New Zealand's broader objectives for sustainable development. A legally-binding side agreement was also secured to negotiate an Investment Protocol within two years of entry into force. Negotiations began in early May 2011 but have not yet been concluded.