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Edwin Paul: India Business Council Chair on the India FTA showing early signs of growth before coming into force · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Governments is export is here already experiencing a halo effect
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  Speaker 1: of the India FTA. They've put out a pressure rear
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  Speaker 1: this about this applely exports to India RUP sixty three
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  Speaker 1: percent on last season. Key we for it, grow a
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  Speaker 1: set for big tariff savings. Edwin Paul, India Business Council
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  Speaker 1: Chair with us this morning and was a.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Grahn.
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  Speaker 1: Now look, I'm all for this FTA, but to try
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  Speaker 1: and claim we're already having some kind of impact from
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  Speaker 1: it before the thing's even you know, passed into law
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  Speaker 1: surely is a stretch.
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  Speaker 2: I would beg to disagree, because the business is all
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  Speaker 2: about confidence the contents that the market displaces. Soever since
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  Speaker 2: the talk of the FTA came in, the visitor arrivals
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  Speaker 2: to New Zealand increase people. We've seen delegations happening back
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  Speaker 2: and forth. I'm not surprised, and I think the term
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  Speaker 2: halo is quite right. We are timeless, too early to
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  Speaker 2: count the numbers exactly, but we are seeing the impact already.
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  Speaker 1: And we've I mean, you're rap, we've had delegations going
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  Speaker 1: both ways. What about specific industries, What are you seeing
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  Speaker 1: in particular areas.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, see you the lowest hanging fruit literally I mean
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  Speaker 2: sorry for the pinet that you mentioned. Is we've seen
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  Speaker 2: an increase in apples already and with our defined increase
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  Speaker 2: in quota from fokiri fruit, we know there's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a steady increase on that side. And also specific
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  Speaker 2: to sectors, we had a delegation on agritech which came
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  Speaker 2: to our field days and that was only about a
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  Speaker 2: month ago and I think they even the outcomes were
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  Speaker 2: greater around that. But we're also seeing interest in honey,
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  Speaker 2: in meat, and wood, in technology, innovation, sports teck.
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  Speaker 1: Especially obviously Modi's coming here Friday, very big visit for
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  Speaker 1: our country. Are you Is anyone worried about the noise
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  Speaker 1: from Winston Peters and his zeland?
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  Speaker 2: First, Oh, the noise will always be around such high
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  Speaker 2: level that delegation, and it's not just in India or
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  Speaker 2: New Zealand. Anywhere these leaders go. There's always be some
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  Speaker 2: fringe gentlemen's creating these kinds of issues. We I think
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  Speaker 2: both garments a lerica and the commitment from both the
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  Speaker 2: leaders to actually meet and shake hands would be the
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  Speaker 2: strongest symbol that I mean, the strongest signal that they
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  Speaker 2: would can wrefort to increase business confidence.
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  Speaker 1: All right, thank you very much. Edou and Paul India
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  Speaker 1: Business Council Chair with us this morning.
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