Last updated: Rāapa, 03 Hakihea, 2025 | Wednesday, 3 December 2025
Boosting Māori exports
Te Puni Kōkiri leads work on three key areas under Tōnui Māori, which seek to strengthen the pipeline of high productivity Iwi and Māori exporters, and protect provenance value add, including:
- leveraging free trade agreements and indigenous collaboration arrangements for Iwi and Māori economic growth
- progressing biodiscovery protection for indigenous flora/fauna
- addressing regulatory barriers to commercialisation (e.g. recognition of cultural intellectual property and provenance).
Te Puni Kōkiri is the government system lead on matters relating to the appropriate use of taonga species and mātauranga Māori. A key component of this responsibility is enabling Māori to appropriately leverage the use of their taonga and mātauranga Māori in global markets.
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