Update to the New Zealand Strategic Goods List October 2025

The Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade has approved the updated New Zealand Strategic Goods List (NZSGL), which came into effect on 30 October 2025.

The updated list includes national controls on certain dual use technologies:

• Materials processing;
• Electronics; and
• Computers.

New Zealand is implementing these additional national controls, alongside other like-minded countries, to ensure that specific emerging technology is regulated in the same way as all other dual use items on the NZSGL.

The purpose of New Zealand's Export Controls regime is to regulate the export of goods which may be intended for use that could, directly or indirectly, be to the detriment of New Zealand's security or national interests or contribute to human rights abuse or the contravention of international humanitarian law.

New Zealand's controls on the export of strategic goods are implemented through the Customs Export Prohibition (Strategic Goods) Order 2021 made under section 96 of the Customs and Excise Act 2018 (the Act). Under the Act, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade must maintain a list of all goods and classes of goods (including technologies) that are prohibited for export without his consent because they have, or may have, a strategic use.

The updated NZSGL and explanatory notes can be found on the MFAT website: https://www.mfat.govt.nz/en/trade/export-controls

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