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Jamie Mackay: The Country host on the start of the 2025 China International Import Expo · Best of Business

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  Speaker 1: The Rural Report on Heather do for see Allen.
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  Speaker 2: Dry Jamie McKay, the Country hosts with us. Hello, Jamie Good,
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  Speaker 2: what's this business in Shanghai?
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  Speaker 3: Well, this is the China International Import Expo known as
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  Speaker 3: the c double Ie in Shanghai. Look. A record number
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  Speaker 3: of New Zealand companies, including all the big players like Fonterra, Zesprey, Silver,
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  Speaker 3: fir and farms compete to the honey people. They're all participating.
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  Speaker 3: There's all sorts of places to display your wares. More importantly,
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  Speaker 3: the four million eres to display them to. So this
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  Speaker 3: thing happens every year from the fifth to the tenth
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  Speaker 3: of November. It's very much about showcasing your stuff, and
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  Speaker 3: it's very much about the Chinese government showcasing what they
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  Speaker 3: can do. This is the brainchild of the current president,
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  Speaker 3: She Shingping. So there's no other expo in the world
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  Speaker 3: like for Fonterra, for instance. Heather and I was chatting
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  Speaker 3: to chair Peter McBride this afternoon in advance of teeing
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  Speaker 3: up an interview for my show tomorrow. He's over there
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  Speaker 3: representing Fonterra. He's been there before with Sesbury. They've got
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  Speaker 3: a full milk tanker as a part of their display,
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  Speaker 3: so very very important to be there, and all the
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  Speaker 3: big players in New Zealand AG are there pleasing the
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  Speaker 3: Chinese because we've got to take a dollar each way.
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  Speaker 3: You see you you can't suck up the trump all
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  Speaker 3: the time.
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  Speaker 1: No, true?
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  Speaker 2: That would this be the thing that Ben Bailey from AH.
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  Speaker 2: He's at the chef the pop up that he's doing
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  Speaker 2: for AHI.
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  Speaker 3: Possibly. Possibly. I was chatting to Thomas McDonald earlier in
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  Speaker 3: the week from the Spring Sheep Milk Company. They're the
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  Speaker 3: sheep Milkers based out of the White Gato there there,
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  Speaker 3: So there's you know, there's dozens, dozens and dozens of
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  Speaker 3: New Zealand companies there. Formerllion people show off to.
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  Speaker 2: Now, what's the heads up that Shane Jones has giving
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  Speaker 2: you here on the Gold.
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  Speaker 3: I was hoping you wouldn't go to that story, Heather.
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  Speaker 3: I was hoping you would give me an opportunity to
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  Speaker 3: give the Canterbury Amp Show on a shameless plug because Heather,
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  Speaker 3: for the first time, I haven't read the Shane Jones story.
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  Speaker 3: That's the other reason why for the first time in
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  Speaker 3: ten years it's got Royal amp Show of New Zealand status.
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  Speaker 3: So you might remember this used to be head and Shoulders,
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  Speaker 3: the biggest AMP show in the country. If you weren't
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  Speaker 3: at the Canterbury or the christ Church amp Show Cup
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  Speaker 3: and Show Week, it's happening next week you were nowhere.
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  Speaker 3: But it kind of got a bit, had the wobbles
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  Speaker 3: and was canceled for a couple of years. Sir David Carter,
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  Speaker 3: former Minister of Agriculture, Speaker of the Houses, leading the charge.
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  Speaker 3: They're trying to get back back to the good old
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  Speaker 3: days on what AMP shows were founded on, bringing the
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  Speaker 3: country to town and celebrating quality livestock competitions. Look, they've
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  Speaker 3: got displays of dairy cattle, beef cattle, sheep, equestrian, the
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  Speaker 3: seven hundred Equestrians, they've got a special wall related trade exhibit.
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  Speaker 3: They've got the normal, the Staples, sheep dog trials, Sharing
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  Speaker 3: Shetland pony racing, Clydesdale display as well as as well
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  Speaker 3: as wood chopping and a sharing test between the South
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  Speaker 3: Island and New South Wales and of course heather the
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  Speaker 3: country that's us. We're there to launch air twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: five Makaisa Pilsner with the Emerson's Tiny Pub. And if
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  Speaker 3: you're nice to me for the remainder of this month,
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  Speaker 3: in fact, for the remainder of this calendar year, Eather,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to send you and bury some Christmas I shall.
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  Speaker 2: I shall be nice to you. And also I'm not
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  Speaker 2: pregnant this Christmas, so absolutely I'll be taking there. Thanks
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  Speaker 2: very much, Jamie, look after yourself, Jammie MacKaye our host
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  Speaker 2: of the Country.
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