SYDNEY: New Zealand will end next month the temporary foreign investment rules it adopted last year to prevent fire sales of distressed corporate assets during the coronavirus pandemic, it has said, citing a swifter than anticipated economic recovery.
The rules allowed the government to intervene in investments not usually subject to screening under foreign investment rules and gave it the powers to block any deals on national security grounds.
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