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

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
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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

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
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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

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
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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.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
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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.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
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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

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
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"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

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
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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.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
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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.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
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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

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
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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

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
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It will be possible for the New Zealand meat industry to export beef to Chile, Trade and Agriculture Minister Lockwood Smith announced today.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
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Trade and Agriculture Minister Lockwood Smith leaves for Sydney tomorrow for a Cairns Group trade ministers' meeting designed to further develop the group's strategy for the World Trade Organisatio

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
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Trade and Agriculture Minister Lockwood Smith has welcomed last night's decision by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) dispute settlement body to establish a disputes panel to hear New Zealand's ca

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
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UK Customs' decision to appeal to the London High Court the January ruling by the UK VAT and Duties Tribunal that the New Zealand Dairy Board can send spreadable butter and Ammix butter to the EU a

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
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Trade and Forestry Minister Lockwood Smith is shocked that the New Zealand Forest & Bird Society has sent a submission to the United States Department of Agriculture attacking our biosecurity a

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
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New Zealand will tonight seek the establishment of a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel to hear our case against Canada's special milk classes scheme, Trade Minister Lockwood Smith annou

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
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Trade and Agriculture Minister Lockwood Smith has welcomed today's announcement by the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) that the Import Risk Assessment (IRA) process for New Zeal

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
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Saudi Arabia has agreed to drop import duties on manufactured dairy products destined for re-export, Trade and Agriculture Minister Lockwood Smith announced from Riyadh today.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
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New Zealand's relationship with Bahrain remains strong, Trade Minister Lockwood Smith reports, following his one-day visit to the Gulf state.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
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Trade Minister Lockwood Smith has signed an open skies agreement with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) - New Zealand's first open skies agreement with a Middle East state.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
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Seeking Australian market access for New Zealand apples by mid-year will be top of Trade and Agriculture Minister Lockwood Smith's agenda when he leaves for Hobart tomorrow.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
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The United States has not said it will not sign the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), Trade Minister Lockwood Smith said tonight.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
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Trade Minister Lockwood Smith says reports that the United States does not intend to sign the Multilateral Agreement on Investment are not entirely unexpected but disappointing, and New Zealand is

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
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