New Zealand Delegation Visit to Chile

The P4 Mission Delegation visited Chile last week. Here's what Fundación Chile had to say:

"Meeting is part of the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (Trans-Pacific SEP), also known as P4, signed by Chile, Singapore, Brunei and New Zealand.

A mission with 15 New Zealanders, including the New Zealand ambassador and other members of that country’s diplomatic corps, visited Fundación Chile as part of a trip to Chile, in order to learn about the Chilean situation and to stimulate trade alliances. The mission’s members, which included business people, representatives from the government and from educational centers and institutions, learned about the different projects that Fundación Chile develops and, at the same time, contacted Chilean business people who are interested in taking advantage of New Zealand’s technological advances in the dairy and livestock sectors.


The visit is part of the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (Trans-Pacific SEP), also known as P4, between Chile, Singapore, Brunei and New Zealand. The agreement will yield strategic benefits to the four members, by building a bridge between Latin America, the Pacific and Asia, and includes a component of collaboration in technological development.

The mission to Chile was organized by New Zealand Trade & Enterprise (NZTE), represented by the Director of that agency’s biotechnology and agriculture areas, Dr. Chris Boalch.

NZTE entrusted Fundación Chile’s Agribusiness Area and the executive group of the Waikato Innovation Park (a research and development park for the agriculture industry in New Zealand) to prepare an exploratory study of possible alliances between New Zealand and Chilean business people. For this purpose, Fundación Chile interviewed different Chilean companies involved in the food chain, in order to discern the willingness and interest to generate alliances and agreements, which yielded auspicious results. The conclusions of these studies were presented in the meeting.

The aim is to take advantage of New Zealand’s investment in technological development by applying it in the Chilean market, especially in the agriculture and forestry sector, with alliances and licensing agreements. In this way, third party markets such as Latin America or the United States can be approached together.

June 28, 2006"