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Felicity Roxburgh: International Business Forum Executive Director on the Future of Investment and Trade Partnership in Auckland · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Trade min is to Tom McLay hosting a global officials
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  Speaker 1: for a big trade meeting on Friday. This is the
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  Speaker 1: future of investment in trade Partnership Ministerial meeting. Chile, Costa, Rica, Iceland, Malaysia, Morocco, Singapore, Switzerland,
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  Speaker 1: all going to be the total twenty one small medium
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  Speaker 1: trading countries where we be represented. Felicity Roxburgh is International
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  Speaker 1: Business from executive director with US this morning. Felicity, good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Is this a big deal?
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  Speaker 2: This is a big deal for small countries. I mean
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  Speaker 2: it may seem like an eclectic group we can read
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  Speaker 2: out that list, but I think you know, we all
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  Speaker 2: have something in common. We rely on global trade and
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  Speaker 2: it's a really difficult time out there for a exporters,
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  Speaker 2: So why not try to work together.
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  Speaker 1: How well are we working with these countries as it is?
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is a kind of a new mechanism and
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  Speaker 2: it does things in a different way. So it's about
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  Speaker 2: small countries deciding that they'll do something called pathfinding, which
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  Speaker 2: in trade means they try or they innovate things and
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  Speaker 2: if they work, then they try and attract other countries
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  Speaker 2: to do the same things. But we do have some
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  Speaker 2: of our best buds in this group as well. We've
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  Speaker 2: got Singapore with whom we have a very strong trade relationship,
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  Speaker 2: and the UAE is also another key partner for New Zealand.
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  Speaker 1: How much of this is about routes that are already
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  Speaker 1: existing or routes that we know regular trading routes that
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  Speaker 1: we can sort of leverage off. I mean Costa Rica.
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  Speaker 1: How much trade do we do with Costa Rica?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean some of them are new, shall we
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  Speaker 2: say new trade partners for US. I mean another one
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  Speaker 2: is Rwanda Paraguay. So you know this this group is
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  Speaker 2: not really just about market access. This group is about
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  Speaker 2: focusing on some issues fly chains open, like tackling non
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  Speaker 2: tariff barriers, doing paperless or digital trades. So this is
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  Speaker 2: like having common certification within our markets. The idea being
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  Speaker 2: that you know, we do have agency. We're not just defensive.
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  Speaker 2: We don't just have defensive interest in this global environment.
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  Speaker 2: We can work together as small countries.
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  Speaker 1: Good stuff. Nice to have you on the show. Felicity
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  Speaker 1: Rocksborough has with US International Business Forum executive director. For
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