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Ryan Bridge: FTA'S need to be done · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Those opposing our FTA with India, I think have got
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  Speaker 1: to be guilty of something quite serious economic treason to
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  Speaker 1: New Zealand. We're a small trading nation. Everyone knows that
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  Speaker 1: we've got lots of food and we need to feed
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  Speaker 1: other people. And we've got red meat. We need to
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  Speaker 1: get that to market. We got milk, we need to
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  Speaker 1: get that to market. We got milk powder, we need
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  Speaker 1: to get it to market. The closer the country, the better.
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  Speaker 1: The higher value add the better and the sugar. On
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  Speaker 1: top of all of all, the top of all of
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  Speaker 1: this is tariff free access, so that our competitive advantage,
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  Speaker 1: of which we do have one producing the world's best
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  Speaker 1: dairy and sheep and beef and kiwi fruit can all
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  Speaker 1: be admired and loved by the world at a reasonable price.
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  Speaker 1: Now Helen Clark knew this well, so did Phil GoF
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  Speaker 1: and they signed a deal to in Beijing in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and seven. Two way trade then was eight billion dollars.
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  Speaker 1: It's now forty one billion dollars. It's now our largest
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  Speaker 1: trading partner. We are on the cuss of another bonanza,
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  Speaker 1: just with a country much bigger and a middle class
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  Speaker 1: that's about to crack open. It's the third going to
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  Speaker 1: be the third largest economy in the world. It's very close. However,
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  Speaker 1: some Kiwi politicians believe this is somehow a bad thing.
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  Speaker 1: That's selling our best produce to other countries at cheaper prices,
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  Speaker 1: unencumbered by another tax regime. How is that not a
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  Speaker 1: good idea because we have to take an extra seventeen
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  Speaker 1: hundred Indians on working visas to come here. So what
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  Speaker 1: they work hard? Guess what they hustle. Guess what they
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  Speaker 1: don't piss around fishing at the beach or sitting on
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  Speaker 1: the couch when they should be working. Migrants do the
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  Speaker 1: jobs that we Kiwis feel that they're too posh to
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  Speaker 1: do in society, don't they. It's hard work, it's on
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  Speaker 1: us work and it needs to be done. Why not
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  Speaker 1: let the people who want to work work. This country
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  Speaker 1: should be filled with ambitious people who want to make
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  Speaker 1: the most of it, and that's what FDAs do and
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  Speaker 1: I can't understand people who don't. For more from early
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