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Taiwan has given the New Zealand blue cod industry a Christmas present, agreeing to reduce tariffs from 50% to 25% from early 1999, Trade Minister Lockwood Smith announced today.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Trade

New Zealand's 76-year-old dispute with Australia over apple access will be settled one way or the other next year, Trade Minister Lockwood Smith said after the annual CER Trade Ministers' Talks in

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Trade

CER Trade Ministers Hon Tim Fischer and Hon Lockwood Smith will hold their annual talks in Wellington on Thursday 17 December 1998.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Trade

Korea has agreed to allow imports of New Zealand cherries, Trade Minister Lockwood Smith announced today after arriving back from Korea on Saturday.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Trade

Korea's reforms have put it on the verge of economic recovery without recourse to New Zealand's US$100 million loan offer, Trade Minister Lockwood Smith said today.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Trade

More than two-thirds of Aucklanders believe the APEC Leaders' Meeting next September will be good for the city, a recent survey shows.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Trade

This week 's visit by Saudi Commerce Minister Osama Faqeeh presents a great opportunity for New Zealand to strengthen economic links with a major Middle Eastern power, Trade Minister Lockwood Smith

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Trade

APEC maintained its credibility last week, Trade Minister Lockwood Smith told the Wellington Chinese Community Forum tonight.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Trade

Joint Ministerial Statement

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Trade

"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.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Trade

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.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Trade

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.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Trade

"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.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Trade

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

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Trade

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

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Trade

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.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Trade

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

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Trade

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

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Trade

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 Lockwood Smith
  • Trade

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

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Trade

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.

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Trade

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

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Trade

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

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Trade

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

  • Dr Lockwood Smith
  • Trade