Minister of Conservation Tim Groser of New Zealand

Since then Groser has served as New Zealand's Ambassador to the World Trade Organization and as the WTO's chairman of agricultural negotiations.

In an announcement, which caught his Geneva colleagues by complete surprise, Groser said he would stand as candidate for the main opposition party in New Zealand's parliamentary elections expected to take place in September.

New Zealand's government issued a statement yesterday stating that, in accordance with the country's election laws, Groser has been placed on leave from his ambassadorial post.

Groser has indicated that he is ready and willing to stay on as chairman through the Hong Kong ministerial regardless of the outcome of the New Zealand elections.

Negotiations would be more complex but produce better results, Mr Groser said on TV One political show Agenda today.

Mr Groser was keen for New Zealand to make headway with the European Union but did not think negotiations would happen until the Doha Round ended.

Mr Groser was optimistic that it could be concluded successfully and said any deal would benefit New Zealand because it had the most to gain from removing export subsidies.

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Climate negotiations minister Tim Groser has defended the Government's call for better treatment of agricultural emissions in the next global climate treaty.

Mr Groser is leading New Zealand's delegation in Poznan, Poland, at a conference that aims to lay the groundwork for negotiations on a climate treaty to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which requires industrial countries to cut emissions by an average 5 percent from 1990 levels.

RAWDONTim Groser has been one of our top diplomats, he was our representative to the old GAT and then to the World Trade organisation where he chaired the agricultural negotiations.

Trade Minister Tim Groser says the Government has decided to ask New Zealand Ambassador to the WTO, and Chair of the WTO Agriculture Negotiations, Crawford Falconer, to remain in Geneva in an effort to help revitalise the WTO's Doha Development Round negotiations.

Trade Minister Tim Groser has expressed disappointment at the cancellation of a WTO Ministerial Meeting which had been scheduled to begin later this week, in a bid to progress the stalled WTO Doha Round.

Conservation Minister Tim Groser has today released the Briefing for the Incoming Minister of Conservation from the Department of Conservation.

In the overview, Groser says that the aim of the "first approximation" is to prepare an adequate structure in all three pillars for the more political September-December negotiating phase.

Groser said that agriculture is critical to ensuring a 'development return' from the Round for two reasons.

Groser said he was not suggesting that all these 'instruments' are to be left aside for the post-July phase.

On cotton, Groser said to maintain confidence that the Agriculture Negotiations can deliver concrete results, "we have to have something credible to show for our efforts" of the past 12 months.

On Domestic Support, Groser said there are two broad matters that need to be settled: the disciplines and commitments on Trade-Distorting Domestic Support (TDS) and the review and clarification of the disciplines (rules) to ensure that Green Box measures have no or at most minimal effects on trade and production.

On the Formula for Final Bound Total AMS, Groser said that given that "we are targeting absolute levels of distortion, it is clear that any formula to be agreed on will be driven by the absolute scheduled levels in three Members: the EC (US$59.

On Overall Reduction in TDS, Groser said that similarly the structure of this formula will be driven by the data.

On Product-Specific AMS Caps, Groser said that the July Framework agreed to develop product-specific AMS caps.

On De Minimis support, Groser said for developed countries, this is simply a matter of the size of the cut.

On the review of the criteria of the Blue Box support, Groser said the objective is to ensure that Blue Box payments are less trade-distorting than AMS measures.

Those developed and developing country Members which are at most light users of any form of subsidisation, are seeking reassurance that the complex specific provisions of the Green Box are indeed consistent with the overarching criterion of 'no or at most minimal trade-distorting effects or effects on production.

Groser said there is a danger here of members talking past each other.

Groser said that ultimately, with respect to introducing some 'development friendly' provisions suited to the specific realities of developing country agriculture, lies a potential 'win-win' outcome.

On export competition, Groser said there is already both structure and the agreed end point ('elimination') in this pillar.

Groser said the members in practice have focussed on identifying which policies, within the scope of export credits with repayment terms of 180 days or below, certain types of Food Aid, and certain practices of exporting STEs, might be considered under either of the headings: "all forms of export subsidies" and "export measures with equivalent effect.

On Export Credits, Groser said the July 2004 Framework agreed on the key issue that export credits exceeding 180 days are to be eliminated.

On Exporting State Trade Entities, Groser said the 'issue of the future use of monopoly powers' remains under negotiation and should be considered in the September-December phase.

On developing country STE specific practice, Groser said it is difficult to take this further, given the lack of convergence on 'other issues.

On Food Aid, Groser said there has been little or no convergence on Food Aid since July 2004, and it is essential that some building blocks are put in place by 31 July 2005.

Groser said all Members believe any WTO rules aimed at preventing 'commercial displacement' must not compromise efforts to help the most vulnerable people in developing countries.

On market access, Groser said this is the most complex and least advanced pillar.

Groser said there should be some agreed structure for the market access formula by 31 July.

Regarding cotton, Groser said progress in both the development and trade tracks is vital.

Groser has spoken little in public since his appointment in February.

Groser said the agriculture negotiations are "absolutely the political key to this development round.

farmers have said Brazil and other advanced developing countries should not be able to have developing country status, which allows them to avoid reductions in subsidies or tariffs like much poorer developing countries, but Groser said he does not believe the negotiators will agree on a new category for those countries.

Groser said he believes "the answer" to this question will lie in negotiations on special and differential treatment for those countries.

Groser said he believes countries like Brazil "will reform," but said "forcing them to do it is not realistic.

Groser said he considers the European Union offer to eliminate its agricultural export subsidies to be "conditional" on other countries meeting European demands because the offer by EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy and EU Agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler was "an offer of some vision but was extremely sensitive to our friends in the EU.

Groser said there are two views of the Green Box.

Noting that economists say "all funds are fungible," Groser said it is not possible to "to give a dollar without having some trade distortion.

cotton subsidies to violate WTO rules, Groser said the developed countries may have a point when they ask the developing countries, "Could you please accept we are making a contribution rather than pursue US.

Groser said he was a Treasury official in New Zealand when President Nixon ended the fixed exchange rate for the dollar and that New Zealand had to learn to live with flexible exchange rates.

Groser said he understood that after the 1996 US.

Groser said that as a New Zealander, he has "come to a very crude view - 'get over it and live with it.

I admit to having used cannabis in my earlier life and do not want to hide that fact," Groser said in a statement.

Denying his former wife's claim, Groser said it was the result of "my ill-judged recently-published comments, for which I unreservedly apologise to her.

Groser said the negotiators had agreed that the Doha Round should include an end date for elimination of agricultural export subsidies but that the "details of disciplines" on subsidized export credit guarantees, state trading enterprises and how to allow developed countries flexibility in providing market access for their "sensitive products" could all be "deal breakers.

Described recently as 'the most powerful man in world agriculture' Groser was responsible for brokering the final groundbreaking deal in a marathon 13-hour session.

Tim Groser was New Zealands Chief Negotiator at the Uruguay round of GATT talks, served as New Zealands ambassador to the World Trade Organisation, and is currently the National Partys Spokesperson for Trade and Associate Spokesperson for Finance.

It seems Groser has committed himself to winning votes in New Lynn every bit as much as he committed himself to winning gains for New Zealand exporters from the EU, Japan, South Korea, the US and other anti-free-trade jurisdictions.

Perhaps thats because, if Groser is a little bit of a you-know-what, Silent T is the real thing.

Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser said in a statement.

keep up momentum to reach a deal in the next few months.

Groser is hoping that the current serious economic times will bring a serious political response.

Chambers next Momentum breakfast on 30 August.

Tim Groser is a current New Zealand Politician and former Diplomat.

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Groser is due to present a revised proposal on agriculture later in the day as part of a draft framework for future global trade talks, which must be agreed on by the WTO's 147 member states by Friday night.

Tim Groser was born in Perth, Scotland and moved to New Zealand with his parents in 1958.

Groser is regarded as one of the world's leading experts on international trade — and until recently was New Zealand's Ambassador to the World Trade Organization (WTO), as well as Chair of Agricultural Negotiations for the WTO.

that all these 'instruments' are to be left aside for the post-July phase.

be driven by the absolute scheduled levels in three Members: the EC (US$59.

Box payments are less trade-distorting than AMS measures.

most minimal trade-distorting effects or effects on production.

here of members talking past each other.

and export measures with equivalent effect.

negotiation and should be considered in the September-December phase.

lack of convergence on 'other issues.

is essential that some building blocks are put in place by 31 July 2005.

efforts to help the most vulnerable people in developing countries.

this is the most complex and least advanced pillar.

some agreed structure for the market access formula by 31 July.

progress in both the development and trade tracks is vital.

type of paper he might produce at the end of July.

modalities that members want to agree in Hong Kong in December.

Tim Groser15 December 2008 - Trade Minister Tim Groser has expressed disappointment at the cancellation of a WTO Ministerial Meeting which had been scheduled to begin later this week, in a bid to progress the stalled WTO Doha Round.

Mr Groser says the focus now has to be on intensive efforts to get the negotiations back on track in the New Year so that the Doha Round could be concluded as soon as possible.

Mr Groser met with WTO Director General Pascal Lamy in Geneva during the weekend and senior envoys from key WTO member states.

Tim Groser16 December 2008 - Trade Minister Tim Groser says the Government has decided to ask New Zealand Ambassador to the WTO, and Chair of the WTO Agriculture Negotiations, Crawford Falconer, to remain in Geneva in an effort to help revitalise the WTO's Doha Development Round negotiations.

Mr Groser says efforts to maintain momentum in the negotiations are critical after the disappointing cancellation of a WTO ministerial meeting scheduled for later this week.

already been acquired (the “acquis”) in the negotiations, i.

components) to be disciplined in parallel with pure export subsidies.

in order to avoid “slippage” in the negotiations.