Hong Kong - New Zealand Trade Relations

New Zealand and Hong Kong are Important Trading Partners

  • In 2025, New Zealand was Hong Kong's 42nd largest trading partner. Hong Kong was New Zealand's 21st largest trading partner in 2025.
  • Total merchandise trade between Hong Kong and New Zealand amounted to HK$8.2 billion in 2025, increased by 7.4% from 2024. The average annual growth rate from 2021 to 2025 was -4.2%.
  • In 2025, Hong Kong's domestic export of goods to New Zealand amounted to HK$0.08 billion. Major domestic exports to New Zealand included plastics in non-primary forms; petroleum, petroleum products and related materials; and jewellery, goldsmiths' and silversmiths' wares, and other articles of precious or semi-precious materials.
  • Hong Kong's re-export of goods to New Zealand totalled HK$2.9 billion. Major re-exports were telecommunications and sound recording and reproducing apparatus and equipment; photographic apparatus, equipment and supplies and optical goods; watches and clocks; and electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, and electrical parts thereof.
  • In 2025, Hong Kong imported HK$5.2 billion worth of goods from New Zealand. Major imports included dairy products and birds' eggs; vegetables and fruit; and meat and meat preparations.
  • Hong Kong and New Zealand signed the Hong Kong, China - New Zealand Closer Economic Partnership Agreement (CEP Agreement) in March 2010. The CEP Agreement entered into force on 1 January 2011. It facilitates trade in goods and services between Hong Kong and New Zealand and opens up new business opportunities. It also strengthens the trade and investment ties between the two economies. Please click here for more information.

Hong Kong is an Important Entrepot for Mainland-New Zealand Trade

  • Hong Kong is an important entrepot for merchandise trade between New Zealand and the Chinese Mainland. Re-export trade between the two economies through Hong Kong amounted to HK$5.8 billion in 2025.

Hong Kong is an Important Location for New Zealand Interests

  • Hong Kong is a separate customs territory recognised by the World Trade Organization as a member.
  • Hong Kong welcomes overseas investment and offers an environment in which there is a free flow of capital and return on investment without exchange controls.
  • In the survey covering about 11 070  companies in Hong Kong with parent companies located outside Hong Kong in June 2025, there were around 20 local offices in Hong Kong with their parent companies located in New Zealand*.
  • Hong Kong and New Zealand signed an Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (IPPA) and the IPPA entered into force in August 1995. Please click here for more information.
  Summary of Hong Kong's Merchandise Trade with New Zealand
(in HK$ million)
  2024 % Change
2024/2023		 2025 % Change
2025/2024
Domestic Exports 87 38.9 75 -13.3
Re-exports 2,894 -9.0 2,913 0.7
Total Exports 2,981 -8.1 2,988 0.3
Imports 4,630 17.2 5,187 12.0
Total Trade 7,611 5.8 8,175 7.4

Note:

*

Figures are rounded to the nearest ten. Besides, the figures on regional headquarters and regional offices for New Zealand are not released by Census and Statistics Department to safeguard confidentiality of information of individual companies.

While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the above information, the Department cannot guarantee this to be so and will not be held liable for any reliance placed on the same.

Trade and Industry Department
The Government of the Hong Kong
Special Administrative Region

Telephone: (852) 2398 5594
Website: www.tid.gov.hk

April 2026

2026-04-08
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