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World trade and New Zealand, 1993

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World trade and New Zealand, 1993

New Zealand governments were keen to see liberalisation in world food trade, but they had little influence on other countries. The Uruguay round of trade talks, to which this cartoon refers, eventually produced some gains for agricultural traders.

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Malcolm McKinnon, International economic relations – Britain, New Zealand and Europe after 1940, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/cartoon/24806/world-trade-and-new-zealand-1993 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, published 2 March 2010.