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Nathan Guy: Independent Chair of Meat Industry Association and Special Agriculture Envoy reacts to National's trade promises · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: National's on a bit of a trade blitz after getting
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  Speaker 1: the Indie FTA across the line. They're wanting to cut
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  Speaker 1: deals with seven new countries, including Brazil, Nigeria, Argentina and more.
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  Speaker 1: Nathan Guys Meat Industry Association, Independent Chare and Special Agricultural
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  Speaker 1: Envoy joins.
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  Speaker 2: Us this morning. Nathan, good morning, Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So after India, who's top of your list? Who
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  Speaker 1: do we want one with?
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  Speaker 2: I think out of the list that were announced yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: probably Bangladesh is pretty much ready to go. They are
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  Speaker 2: very engage with US. It's a very big dairy market
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  Speaker 2: about three hundred and fifty million at the moment for
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  Speaker 2: Fonti and others, so I think that might be first
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  Speaker 2: cab off the rank. It wouldn't surprise me if North
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  Speaker 2: America and North African countries like Nigeria are also quite
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  Speaker 2: warmed up as well. Switzerland's an interesting one, very high
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  Speaker 2: value market, but small at the moment, so that they
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  Speaker 2: decided with others not to join the EU so they
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  Speaker 2: stand alone. Also with Iceland and lets Line in Norway,
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  Speaker 2: they've set up a little EU Free Trade Association, so
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  Speaker 2: they're keen to go in Switzerland's a part of that,
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  Speaker 2: so I think that'll be interesting. And then if we
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  Speaker 2: look across to South America, some massive economies over there, Brazil,
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  Speaker 2: Argentina and Uruguay big beef producers, quite strong and dairy,
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  Speaker 2: so they are likely to be interested in services in agritech.
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  Speaker 1: Good thing about this is that it's largely bipartisan free trade,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, well, we saw that little delay with the Labor
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  Speaker 2: Party on the India FDA. Fortunately over time they decided
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  Speaker 2: it was significant for the New Zealand economy and for
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  Speaker 2: New Zealanders as a whole. We need to remind ourselves
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  Speaker 2: Ryan that these free trade agreements actually benefit every household
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  Speaker 2: in New Zealand are significant. And I think what this
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  Speaker 2: plan has done was announced yesterday to the National Party.
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  Speaker 2: It's got a clear plan of action now all targeted
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  Speaker 2: approach twenty three trade missions over the next term, which
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  Speaker 2: is exciting for business. So I just think now there's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a real crystallizing of minds, a focus
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  Speaker 2: in government with m fat MPI and New Zealand Trade
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  Speaker 2: and Enterprise to work concernedly together on these opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: Good stuff, Nathan, appreciate your time this morning. Nathan, guy
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  Speaker 1: who is meeting Thry Your Association course former minister as well.
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