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！ 2021年10月7日新闻秘书处消息，新西兰、智利和加拿就《全球贸易和性别安排》结盟后今天墨西哥成为第四个参与国。
新西兰欢迎墨西哥成为包容性贸易倡议的新伙伴。新西兰、智利和加拿大今天在巴黎举行的一次活动上欢迎墨西哥成为包容性贸易行动小组的最新成员和全球贸易和性别安排的签署国。 贸易和出口增长部长达米安·奥康纳正在欧洲推动新西兰与欧盟自由贸易协定的谈判。他还参加了在法国举行的经合组织会议和在意大利举行的20国集团会议。达米安·奥康纳与加拿大国际贸易部长玛丽·吴、智利国际贸易部副部长罗德里戈·耶内斯·贝尼特斯和墨西哥贸易部副部长卢兹·玛丽亚·德拉莫拉一起出席了今年经合组织部长级会议期间举行的ITAG会议。
德拉莫拉副部长出示了墨西哥经济部长塔蒂亚娜·克鲁蒂尔·卡里略签署的《全球贸易和性别安排》副本。这一步骤使墨西哥成为这一开创性安排的第四个参与者，该安排旨在促进妇女参与贸易，作为在该集团成员中促进增强妇女经济权能的更广泛努力的一部分。 贸易部长达米安·奥康纳说 : “我们为墨西哥与我们一道踏上这段旅程而感到自豪和高兴。GTAGA 下的合作有助于为我们的女性创新者和企业家奠定更好的道路。这是新西兰在行动中采取协调一致开放多边主义战略的又一例证。我们寻求机会与志同道合的经济体合作，在高质量的贸易协定中开发新的想法。这些协定以世贸组织规则为基础，并允许其他世贸组织成员加入。贸易对我们的经济至关重要，尤其是在我们从COVID-19中共同复苏。这一突破性的安排是确保贸易的利益为所有人分担。我们知道，妇女不太可能参与贸易，并错失了贸易带来的机遇，无论是通过提高工资，还是通过可交易部门促进的竞争力和创新。
新西兰、加拿大和智利自 2018 年 11 月以来一直作为 ITAG 共同努力，推动更具包容性和可持续性的贸易议程。2020年8月签署的《GTAGA》是来自这一集团的具体倡议之一。 墨西哥参加国际伙伴关系和GTAGA是与新西兰建立牢固和长期关系的又一进步，其中包括我们共同参与全面和进步的跨太平洋伙伴关系”达米安·奥康纳说。达米安·奥康纳通过美国前往欧洲，这是自2020年COVID-19爆发以来第二次部长级出访。 在过去十二个月中，在《GTAGA》下举行了一些成功的活动。 达米安·奥康纳参加了2021年6月经合组织主办的部长级会议，与会者包括一系列私营部门高级女性领导人和来自商业、政府、学术界和民间社会的数百名与会者。 什么是协调一致的开放多边主义？新西兰贸易战略的一个关键部分是支持和振兴对像我们这样的小贸易国家至关重要的基于规则的体系。一致开放的多边主义意味着我们寻找探路者的机会，与志同道合的经济体集团合作，分享我们在贸易政策领域制定对新西兰很重要的新想法和新规范的雄心壮志， 满足商业需求和全球优先事项，包括包容性贸易和可持续发展。我们共同制定高质量的贸易协定，以世贸组织现有规则为基础，支持现有规则。如果其他世贸组织成员能够履行高标准的承诺，并随着时间的推移为多边成果开辟道路，它们就愿意加入世贸组织。最近，《数字经济伙伴关系协定》和《气候变化、贸易和可持续性协定》是这种做法的实例。
New Zealand welcomes Mexico as a new partner on inclusive trade initiatives
New Zealand, Chile and Canada welcomed Mexico as the newest member of the Inclusive Trade Action Group (ITAG) and signatory of the Global Trade and Gender Arrangement (GTAGA) at an event today in Paris.
Trade and Export Growth Minister Damien O’Connor is in Europe to advance New Zealand’s negotiations for a free trade agreement with the European Union. He is also participating in meetings at the OECD in France and G20 in Italy.
Damien O’Connor joined Canada’s Minister for International Trade Mary Ng, Chile’s Vice Minister for International Trade Rodrigo Yáñez Benítez, and Mexico’s Undersecretary for Trade Luz Maria de la Mora at the ITAG meeting in the margins of this year’s OECD Ministerial Conference.
Undersecretary de la Mora presented a copy of the Global Trade and Gender Arrangement, signed by Mexico’s Secretary of the Economy, Tatiana Clouthier Carrillo. The step makes Mexico the fourth participant of this ground-breaking arrangement that aims to promote women’s involvement in trade as part of broader efforts to promote women’s economic empowerment within the group’s membership.
“We are proud and pleased that Mexico has joined with us on this journey. Cooperation under the GTAGA helps to lay a better pathway for our women innovators and entrepreneurs,” Damien O’Connor said.
“This is another example of the New Zealand strategy of concerted open plurilaterialism in action. It’s an approach where we pursue opportunities to work with like-minded economies to develop new ideas in high-quality trade agreements. These agreements build on and support WTO rules, and are open to other WTO members to join.
“Trade is critical to our economies, especially in our shared recovery from COVID-19. This ground-breaking arrangement is about ensuring the benefits of trade are shared by all.
“We know that women are less likely to be involved in trade and are missing out on the opportunities that flow from it, whether that be through higher wages or the enhanced competitiveness and innovation that is promoted by the tradable sector.
New Zealand, Canada and Chile, have worked together since November 2018 as the ITAG to promote a more inclusive and sustainable trade agenda. The GTAGA, signed in August 2020, is one concrete initiative that has flowed from this grouping.
Mexico’s participation in ITAG and GTAGA is another step forward in the strong and long-standing relationship with New Zealand, which includes our shared participation in the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
Damien O’Connor’s travel to Europe through the USA is the second ministerial trip abroad since the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020.
There have been a number of successful events over the last twelve months held under the GTAGA. Damien O’Connor participated in an OECD-hosted Ministerial meeting in June 2021 that brought together a range of senior women private sector leaders and hundreds of participants from business, government, academia and civil society.
What is concerted open plurilateralism?
A key part of New Zealand’s trade strategy is bolstering and revitalising the rules-based system that is so crucial to small trading countries like ours.
Concerted open plurilateralism means we identify pathfinder opportunities to work with groups of like-minded economies that:
· share our ambition to develop new ideas and norms in trade policy areas that are important to New Zealand, and
· respond to business needs and global priorities, including inclusive trade and sustainable development.
Together, we develop high quality trade agreements that build on and support existing WTO rules. These are open to other WTO members to join if they can meet the high standard of commitments and lay a pathway to multilateral outcomes over time.
Most recently, the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement (DEPA) and the Agreement on Climate Change, Trade and Sustainability (ACCTS) are instances of this approach in action.
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