RG/WP Poster presenters

5.10.00

Forest Products Marketing and Business Management

Poster 6 James Turner, Frances Maplesden, Susan

Bates and Andres Katz

Scion

James Turner

Te Papa Tipu Innovation Park, 49 Sala St

Rotorua

New Zealand

Non-tariff trade measures: Economic impacts on New Zealand’s forest industry

Non-tariff trade measures: Economic impacts on New Zealand’s forest

industry

• To understand potential changes in New Zealand’s value-added export market environment, the technical barriers and opportunities likely to arise, and the responses required to enable export growth

Poster 6 Results

• The major barriers to export growth were related to scarcity of management resources

• Most of technical barriers were health and safety regulations. Despite national codes and standards, local regulations varied between regions

• Greatest benefit from removal of technical barriers that substantially affect production and delivery costs

• Reducing the costs due to Japan’s design specifications for prefabricated housing would have the largest increase in New Zealand prefabricated housing exports; US$326 million over 2002 to 2030

• 12.6% to 22.1% increase in the value of New Zealand’s total wood products net-trade in 2030 by combining removal of technical barriers with market development for prefabricated housing exports

Poster 6 Conclusions

• greatest benefit from removal of barriers that account for the greatest proportion of production costs

• additional benefit from market development coupled with removal of technical barriers

• future research will assess benefit of strategies to overcome the most significant technical barriers