Thomas, for interest, check out
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10502506NZ remains hopeful that it may be able to achieve a similar agreement with the USA one day, or with the EU for that matter. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
