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Ladies and Gentlemen: thank you for the invitation to speak with you today. Thank you especially to our hosts this morning, and particularly Tommy Koh, Director of the Institute and a very good friend of New Zealand.

  • Jim Sutton
  • Trade Negotiations

Chairman Tom Williams, ladies and gentlemen: thank you for the invitation to speak with you today.

  • Jim Sutton
  • Agriculture

Chairman Alistair Polsen, chief executive Tony St Clair, ladies and gentlemen: thank you for the invitation to speak with you today.

  • Jim Sutton
  • Agriculture

The Government would monitor the effects of new regulatory regimes on the provision of agricultural chemicals and the introduction of new plants and animals, Agriculture Minister Jim Sutton said today.

  • Jim Sutton
  • Agriculture

The Government has received the report from the Waitangi Tribunal on the Taranaki Maori claim following the restructuring of the dairy industry and will be considering it carefully, Maori Affairs Minister Parekura Horomia and Agriculture Minister Jim Su

  • Jim Sutton
  • Agriculture

The New World wine agreement, signed today in Canada, would protect the expanding international wine trade from unnecessary regulatory barriers,Trade Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton said today.

  • Jim Sutton
  • Trade Negotiations

New Zealand and the United States have successfully applied for the World Trade Organisation to re-hear their case against a Canadian dairy export scheme which both countries believe is illegal, Trade Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton said today.

  • Jim Sutton
  • Trade Negotiations

The Government is to pay for the development of a strategic plan for the organic agriculture sector, Agriculture Minister Jim Sutton said today.

Mr Sutton said the organic sector had gone through a period of rapid growth in New Zealand.

  • Jim Sutton
  • Agriculture

Gross revenues from agriculture and forestry are expected to rise in the year to March next year, Agriculture Minister Jim Sutton said today.

  • Jim Sutton
  • Agriculture

The Opposition are engaging in irresponsible scaremongering, Agriculture Minister Jim Sutton said today.

  • Jim Sutton
  • Agriculture

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the Waitakere City Council have agreed the minister should step in as a solution to enable the eradication of the Painted Apple Moth, Biosecurity Minister Jim Sutton said today.

  • Jim Sutton
  • Agriculture

The United States’ International Trade Commission decision to ask President George W Bush for safeguard tariffs of up to 20 per cent for four years on steel imports from New Zealand was disappointing, Trade Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton said today.

  • Jim Sutton
  • Trade Negotiations

Five Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Quarantine Service staff have been awarded East Timor medals in recognition of their service in the war-torn country.

  • Jim Sutton
  • Agriculture

The approval of trade promotion authority by the United States’ House of Representatives was welcome news, Trade Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton said today.

  • Jim Sutton
  • Trade Negotiations

A new bill updating and streamlining the arrangements governing the wine industry is to be introduced next year, Agriculture Minister Jim Sutton said today.

  • Jim Sutton
  • Agriculture

Prime Minister, Ambassador Swindells, chairwoman Fran O’Sullivan, ladies and gentlemen.

It is evident the events of 11 September have their most direct importance in realms other than trade policy.

  • Jim Sutton
  • Trade Negotiations

Three people have been appointed to make up the board of inquiry into the proposed national Bovine TB strategy, Agriculture Minister Jim Sutton said today.

  • Jim Sutton
  • Agriculture

Three people have been appointed to make up the board of inquiry into the proposed national Bovine TB strategy, Agriculture Minister Jim Sutton said today.

  • Jim Sutton
  • Agriculture

Ladies and Gentlemen: thank you for the invitation to speak today.

  • Jim Sutton
  • Trade Negotiations

The World Trade Organisation’s Appellate Body declined to make a ruling on New Zealand’s complaint that Canada was providing illegal export subsidies to its dairy industry, Trade Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton said today.

  • Jim Sutton
  • Trade Negotiations

Trade Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton leaves New Zealand today for a four-day trip to Singapore and Hong Kong.

  • Jim Sutton
  • Trade Negotiations

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, I’m delighted to be here today to present the India Education Export Network with a Trade New Zealand Export Commendation- just a year after I joined with you in India, and saw first hand what you were doing there.

  • Jim Sutton
  • Trade Negotiations

Chairman Giff Davidson, Ambassador Chong, members of the Korea/New Zealand Business Council, thank you for the invitation to speak today.

  • Jim Sutton
  • Trade Negotiations

The WTO membership agreed to launch a round of world trade negotiations today, Trade Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton said.

  • Jim Sutton
  • Trade Negotiations