Fiji ban on PNG Made products

This followed Fiji’s Biosecurity Authority executive chair, Xavier Riyaz Khan, and Fiji’s Trade Commissioner to PNG, Navitalai Tuivuniwai, travelling with a delegation to Port Moresby last month to defuse a looming trade war.

Tuivuniwai told Loop PNG from Fiji that a final decision will be known soon.

“Right now the technical team from the Biosecurity Authority of Fiji are in the process of submitting the final report to government for their endorsement,” Tuivuniwai said.   

“Trade between or among countries is based on win-win situations. Trade reflects the competitiveness and comparative advantage of a country,” says Francis Hualupmomi, a political scientist and a PhD student in Public Policy in the School of Government at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

“And for this to take place and promote economic development and growth, free and open trade guided by rules of the game to ensure fair play is necessary.

“Unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to be the case for the trade relations between PNG and Fiji over certain issues.