United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk today released a statement following congressional approval of the U.S.-Korea, U.S.-Colombia, and U.S.-Panama trade agreements, as well as Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) reforms, the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), and the Andean Trade Preferences Act. President Barack Obama is expected to sign the initiatives into law in the coming days. | Read more
The future of politics will be decided in Asia, not Afghanistan or Iraq, and the United States will be right at the center of the action. | Read more
Speaker of the House Lockwood Smith is to visit Washington to push New Zealand's trade agenda. | Read more
New Zealand has been ranked second in the world in a study of the best place to do business. | Read more
A joint New Zealand and United States operation is underway to provide emergency water supplies to drought-stricken Tokelau, Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully announced today | Read more
New Zealand's Institute of Environmental Science and Research has been awarded a five year, multi-million dollar US contract to combat the flu virus around the world. | Read more
About 150 people attended a lavish dinner at the New Zealand Embassy in Washington DC on October 3 (October 4 in NZ). | Read more
United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk today called for swift congressional action on legislation for pending trade agreements between the United States and South Korea, Colombia, and Panama, along with renewal of Trade Adjustment Assistance reforms and expired trade preference programs. | Read more
United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk today applauded Senate passage of legislation renewing the expired Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program and also renewing key Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) reforms. | Read more
Today's vote by the U.S. Senate to pass the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) and Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) is a major step forward in finally moving the stalled free trade agreements with Colombia, Korea and Panama. Those agreements - and new opportunities for growth of American manufacturing exports - have languished since 2006. | Read more
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