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New Zealand continues to object to the United States' subsidisation of its dairy exports through its Dairy Export Incentive Programme (DEIP), Trade Minister Lockwood Smith said today.

The National Pest Management Strategy for Bovine Tuberculosis comes into force this week, Agriculture Minister Lockwood Smith said today.

Federated Farmers will receive a further $477,000 for drought assistance through to the end of the year, Agriculture Minister Lockwood Smith announced today.

Agriculture Minister Lockwood Smith has described as "positive" Meat New Zealand's announcement that it is working constructively to meet the Government's 15 November deadline to present plans for

APEC ministers have delivered an impressive result, Trade Minister Lockwood Smith said at the conclusion of the two day APEC trade ministers' meeting in Kuching, Malaysia, last night.

Progressing the early liberalisation deals for the forestry and fisheries sectors is Trade Minister Lockwood Smith's main priority for the APEC trade ministers' meeting starting in Kuching, Malaysi

Trade Minister Lockwood Smith arrives in Japan tomorrow - his first visit to New Zealand's second biggest export destination and the world's second biggest economy.

Canberra's decision to implement its CER obligations with respect to local television content quotas should lead to the New Zealand television industry having a much better chance of exporting its

Electronic commerce via the Internet has been made safe from customs duties, Trade Minister Lockwood Smith said from Geneva today.

The world's most powerful country, the United States, has agreed to support the Cairns Group's trade liberalisation vision for the 1999 agricultural negotiations, Trade Minister Lockwood Smith said

This week's World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial will determine whether negotiations to liberalise agricultural trade can be successfully launched as scheduled by the end of 1999, Trade Minis

TRADE MINISTER LOCKWOOD SMITH will be the first foreign guest of key ministers in the new Russian Government when he visits our fastest growing export market this week.

Trade Minister Lockwood Smith is scheduled to be the first foreign guest of key ministers in the new Russian Government when he visits our fastest growing export market this week.

New Zealand is disappointed that the United States has decided to significantly increase its volumes of subsidised dairy exports under the Dairy Export Incentive Programme (DEIP), Trade Minister Lo

The Labour Party is bitterly divided over the future of indigenous forestry on the West Coast, Forestry Minister Lockwood Smith said today.

The Government's decision to consult on a proposal to end unsustainable rimu logging on the West Coast had nothing to do with the Labour Party, Forestry Minister Lockwood Smith said tonight.

The Government will begin consultations with signatories to the West Coast Accord and other affected parties over a proposal to end the unsustainable logging of indigenous forests by Timberlands We

"They are protesting against an agreement which will not be signed in the foreseeable future and which wouldn't have done any of the things they think it would have done," Trade Minister Lockwood S

Trade and Agriculture Minister Lockwood Smith has welcomed news that UK Customs has decided to drop the two remaining fraud charges against Dairy Board staff and companies in the UK.

New Zealand has sought a pause in negotiations on the OECD's proposed Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Winston Peters and Acting Finance Minister Lock

Trade Minister Lockwood Smith has welcomed today's decision by the Australian High Court that New Zealand television programmes must be included in Australia's local contents quota.

The New Zealand Government does not agree with key findings of the European Court of Auditors' (ECA) report on the conduct of our dairy trade with the European Union (EU), Trade and Agriculture Min

Trade and Agriculture Minister Lockwood Smith will this week take the Cairns Group's trade liberalisation message to the heart of the European Union, with visits to Hamburg, Vienna, Bonn and Brusse

Agriculture Minister Lockwood Smith has brought forward his visit to the Hawke's Bay to next Thursday, 16th April.