Advantages to entering CPTPP, State Owned Enterprises and Sample Clauses

Advantages to entering CPTPP, State Owned Enterprises and. Designated Monopolies The chapter would support New Zealand exporters and investors operating in CPTPP markets, achieving what New Zealand assesses to be an appropriate balance between ensuring the commercial activities of SOEs and monopolies do not negatively impact on trade, while preserving the ability of governments to deliver policy objectives through SOEs and monopolies. Taken together, these obligations would help establish a level playing field for New Zealand businesses competing with SOEs from CPTPP countries. New Zealand exporters operating in CPTPP markets would benefit from the following key obligations: • New Zealand businesses are entitled to be treated according to the same standards as domestic businesses and those from other CPTPP countries, when buying goods or services from an SOE, or selling goods or services to an SOE. The same obligations apply when a monopoly is buying or selling a monopoly good or service. This is an important element in ensuring certainty and a level playing field for New Zealand businesses when they are trading with SOEs and monopolies from CPTPP countries. • New Zealand businesses trading with monopolies from CPTPP countries also would benefit from an obligation to ensure that a monopoly does not use its monopoly position to engage in anti-competitive practices (practices which restrict or distort competition, for example anti- competitive agreements and abuse of dominant position) in markets where the monopoly has not been granted monopoly rights. • Each CPTPP country will need to make a list of its SOEs and monopolies publicly available, and provide on request further information about its policies or programmes which allow for non- commercial assistance to an SOE, which could affect trade and investment between the CPTPP Parties. Greater access to information would enable New Zealand exporters, especially smaller businesses, to make more informed decisions about operating in CPTPP markets. • A provision on Government ‘non-commercial assistance’ to SOEs builds on existing WTO obligations related to government subsidies by focusing specifically on advantages given to 31 The threshold is expressed in International Monetary Fund Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), a unit of account used by the International Monetary Fund and based on a basket of international currencies. The conversion from SDRs to New Zealand dollars changes periodically with currency fluctuations. 32 Based on New Zealand’s 2014 financial statements,...
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