In 2011 Prime Minister John Key launched the NZ Inc India Strategy, a plan for India to become a core trade, economic and political partner for New Zealand. The NZ-India FTA is a crucial step toward achieving that goal.
New Zealand and India already enjoy a strong relationship. We traded more than NZ$1 billion in goods with each other in 2014. More than 11,000 Indian students came to study in New Zealand in 2012, and another 29,000 Indian tourists visited that year. There are well over 100,000 Indian nationals resident in New Zealand.