October 21, 2026
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Duty-free market access under the India-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement expands exports, services mobility, agricultural cooperation, and trade safeguards.
New Zealand eliminates customs duties on all tariff lines for Indian exports, providing 100% duty-free access for sectors including textiles, leather, engineering goods, automobiles, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, agricultural products and processed foods. Sensitive products, including dairy, sugar, edible oils and key agricultural commodities, remain excluded from concessions. Rules of origin, bilateral safeguard measures and anti-circumvention provisions are intended to ensure that preferential benefits reach genuine Indian exporters and to protect vulnerable agricultural and rural interests. Tariff Rate Quotas for apples, kiwifruit and Ma nuka honey are linked to delivery of Agricultural Productivity Partnership Action Plans.