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Nathan Guy: Meat Industry Association Independent Chair explains how primary sector can benefit from NZ-India trade deal · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: The Prime Minister's trip to India off to a flying
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  Speaker 3: start today. Free trade deal negotiations are officially underway. Lux
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  Speaker 3: And is set to meet with Nerandramodi later today. Export
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  Speaker 3: industries are holding their breath. They're very hopeful about this,
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  Speaker 3: but is it going to be comprehensive? Should we even
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  Speaker 3: get our hopes up? Export industries? Sorry, our Meat Industry
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  Speaker 3: Association chair, former Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guys with me
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  Speaker 3: from Deli minister, a former minister.
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  Speaker 2: Good evening, Oh, good evening, Ryan, how are you? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Good? Thanks, good to have you back on the show.
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  Speaker 3: When you were last doing negotiations or you were you
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  Speaker 3: were involved in those negotiations with the Indians under the
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  Speaker 3: Key government was what was it? Was it just dairy
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  Speaker 3: that was the sticking point? What were the issues?
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  Speaker 2: Our dear has always been in a little bit problematic
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  Speaker 2: up here. But this is a comprehensive of agreement that
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  Speaker 2: the negotiation it started, So the word comprehensive is critical.
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  Speaker 2: Australia got a side deal a few years ago. But
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  Speaker 2: we're hoping that we can get something across the line.
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  Speaker 2: For Derry, I guess the challenge will be to do
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  Speaker 2: with Indians who want to come down to our fantastic
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  Speaker 2: country and how the government chooses to manage that. But
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  Speaker 2: if I put my red meat hat on, in particular
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  Speaker 2: in the sheep market, Ryan, this is a significant day
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  Speaker 2: for our sheep farmers and our processes because we're at
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  Speaker 2: the start line. Yes, we've been here before, but it
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  Speaker 2: feels different. We've got a massive delegation up here, about
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  Speaker 2: eighty in the business delegation, and that's significant. The Prime
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  Speaker 2: Minister has got some great FaceTime with Prime Minister Modi,
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  Speaker 2: so the feeling is different. And of course right now
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  Speaker 2: the world is crazy, so we need to keep diversifying
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  Speaker 2: and looking at new market opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: Is that what's making it different? The Trump the way
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  Speaker 3: the rest of the world is behaving right now. Do
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  Speaker 3: you think that might actually help our chances? Is that
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  Speaker 3: what's contributing to that different feeling.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it is. I mean, India is also
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  Speaker 2: negotiating with EU, UK and US, so there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: going on in this space. We're smaller, you know, if
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  Speaker 2: you look at what's happening up here with sheep meat.
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  Speaker 2: At the moment we're facing a thirty percent tariff and
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  Speaker 2: that's a massive headwind. So there's not a lot going
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  Speaker 2: on here. There's one company, Quality and Z who's been
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  Speaker 2: pushing against strong headwinds in this market with New Zealand
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  Speaker 2: cricketers helping them to get access. So that's quite a
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  Speaker 2: success story, but certainly at low levels. So it just
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  Speaker 2: feels different because a we hear big business delegation. Todd
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  Speaker 2: McLay has been working tirelessly on this. I think he's
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  Speaker 2: up to about a seventh visit. He had a fantastic
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  Speaker 2: meeting yesterday with his equivalent, Minister Gal. It feels like
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  Speaker 2: we've got no meat and Ryan we're at the start line.
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  Speaker 2: Very good giding.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, good luck with that. Nathan guy who's the Meat
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  Speaker 3: Industry Association share of course, former Minister of Primary Industries
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  Speaker 3: had done a few trips himself. They need to give
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  Speaker 3: maclay an Indian passport at this point. He's done that
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  Speaker 3: much travel between New Zealand and India over the last
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  Speaker 3: couple of months.
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