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Kōrero: Overseas trade policy

End of the Uruguay GATT round

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End of the Uruguay GATT round

The completion of the Uruguay round of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) negotiations in 1994 marked the end of the longest round of trade talks to date. It took eight years to complete, but was successful in reducing some agricultural tariffs and trade barriers. Here Federated Farmers president Graham Robertson presents a framed cartoon to George Rutherford (centre) from the Ministry for Agriculture and Fisheries and Tim Groser (left) from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, in 1994.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1994/0884/23

by Melanie Burford

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Chris Nixon rāua ko John Yeabsley, Overseas trade policy – Trade liberalisation – 1980s and early 1990s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/21990/end-of-the-uruguay-gatt-round (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Chris Nixon rāua ko John Yeabsley, i tāngia i te 12 April 2010.