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"A new comprehensive Round of trade negotiations in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is now clearly in sight," Trade Minister Lockwood Smith said on his return to New Zealand today.

Trade Minister Lockwood Smith will spend today and tomorrow in Hong Kong, China, for an informal ministerial meeting of certain World Trade Organisation (WTO) members.

Breakfast Meeting
Thai/New Zealand Chamber of Commerce
Bangkok
Thailand

Trade Minister Lockwood Smith will spend today and tomorrow in Thailand promoting New Zealand exports and discussing APEC and WTO issues with the Thai Government.

"Here we go again. Good news for the fisheries and forestry sectors and all Jeremiah Jim Anderton can do is mutter and moan," Trade Minister Lockwood Smith said from Kuala Lumpur today.

APEC Ministers have achieved a breakthrough agreement on Early Voluntary Sectoral Liberalisation (EVSL) of nine priority sectors, including fish and forest products, Trade Minister Lockwood Smith s

Maintaining APEC's commitment to Early Voluntary Sectoral Liberalisation (EVSL), including the fisheries and forestry sectors, is Trade Minister Lockwood Smith's top priority for the APEC Ministeri

Trade Minister Lockwood Smith will present a Trade New Zealand Export Commendation Award to Hamilton's Milfos International Ltd when he visits the company today.

Associate Finance Minister Lockwood Smith would be interested to know whether Labour intends to reverse this year's tax cuts or whether its negative statements on the tax cuts are just more whingei

Labour's Michael Cullen has been strangely silent after yesterday's positive trade statistics, Trade Minister Lockwood Smith said today.

Trade Minister Lockwood Smith holds "quiet hopes" that the worst of the Asian Economic Crisis may be behind New Zealand after provisional merchandise trade statistics suggested exports in September

Trade Minister Lockwood Smith will visit Exporter of the Year Buckley Systems Ltd today.

The visit to its factory at 11 Bowden Road, Mt Wellington, Auckland, will take place at 3.30 pm.

Dr The Hon Lockwood Smith Staff Club Massey University Albany Auckland

An Address By The Trade Minister of New Zealand
Dr the Hon Lockwood Smith
Trade & Investment Seminar
Confederation of Indian Industries (Western Region)
Taj Mahal Hotel

Trade Minister Lockwood Smith departs for India today to lead New Zealand's first trade mission to the subcontinent since 1986.

Te Papa: Museum of New Zealand Wellington

President Nick Roberts, CEO Rob McLagan, Ladies & Gentlemen.

The Government is considering a new Kiwi Innovation initiative which would help small, innovative businesses raise the capital necessary to expand, Trade Minister Lockwood Smith said today.

Trade Minister Lockwood Smith met today with the India/New Zealand Business Council to plan next month's trade mission to the subcontinent.

New Zealanders can be quietly confident of our exporters' continued ability to weather the Asian Economic Crisis following provisional merchandise trade statistics which suggest exports were up 4.9

Media reports of a breakthrough at the APEC senior officials meeting in Malaysia are premature, Trade Minister Lockwood Smith said today.

Economic Partners
Park Royal Hotel, Christchurch

June quarter export volumes are predicted to be up 10.6% compared with the March quarter despite the Asian Economic Crisis, Trade Minister Lockwood Smith said today.

Exporters of beef and lamb hit by the turmoil in Asia will now have an opportunity to shift product into Argentina, Trade Minister Lockwood Smith said today.

The Government's progressive change management process for producer boards will allow the Dairy, Apple & Pear and Kiwifruit boards to become the three most sophisticated producer-owned food mar