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Jamie Mackay: The Country host on the Deputy Secretary of Trade calling for New Zealand to diversify trading partners · Best of Business

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to a podcast from News Talk zed B.
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  Speaker 2: Jamie McKay hosts of the Countries with Us. Hello Jamie, Hello, Heather.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, I'm on two conversations. I need to concentrate on you.
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  Speaker 2: Who are you chatting with?
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  Speaker 3: Am my wife?
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  Speaker 2: And not fair enough?
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  Speaker 4: She generally, I mean I can understand that generally, she
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  Speaker 4: would take precedence over literally everybody except.
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  Speaker 3: I normally don't normally do mostly listening. She does most
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  Speaker 3: of the talking. But occasion I was talking.
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  Speaker 2: I bet she appreciated that coming a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, it's a bit gloomy to think the golden era
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  Speaker 4: of trade is over, but I mean that's probably realistic.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't it?
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  Speaker 3: Well, in some ways it is. And this was the
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  Speaker 3: statement made by Vangallis Batalas. What a great name. He
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  Speaker 3: sounds like an Argentina Argentine and tennis player from the seventies,
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  Speaker 3: doesn't he like Cavita Scarelitis and quil Mero Vealis. I'm
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  Speaker 3: getting way off track, Sorry, they're Heather. Yeah, like he said,
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  Speaker 3: we went through a primary expert in between ninety five
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  Speaker 3: and twenty seventeen, and he said since then, things have
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  Speaker 3: got a lot harder. And he used the example of
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  Speaker 3: superpowers like the US and China who are basically making
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  Speaker 3: up the rules to suit themselves, and we the smaller
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  Speaker 3: and medium states like New Zealand are increasingly becoming collateral damage.
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  Speaker 3: And we might need to get used to that either.
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  Speaker 3: Because if Trump gets the White House, he is rather
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  Speaker 3: insular when it comes to trade, he said New Zealand.
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  Speaker 3: This was his address to the Primary Industry Summit yesterday morning.
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  Speaker 3: He said New Zealand couldn't afford to rest on its laurels,
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  Speaker 3: especially if we want to reach the goal, the government's
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  Speaker 3: current goal of doubling the value of exports in the
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  Speaker 3: next decade. At the moment, New Zealand's all about China.
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  Speaker 3: They take twenty three percent of our total exports. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, he made the point, we also have the
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  Speaker 3: cp TPP I hope I've got enough peas in there,
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  Speaker 3: the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Transpersion Partnership, and that
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  Speaker 3: actually takes twenty seven percent of our trade. And then
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  Speaker 3: he said, if you're throw in the Assian Nations Association
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  Speaker 3: of South East Asian Nations, that's the very that's the
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  Speaker 3: growing market of Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines and Malaysia. That's you know,
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  Speaker 3: potentially and this is what a lot of people are
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  Speaker 3: telling me. That is where our future lie Southeast Asia.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that probably is actually right. And you
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  Speaker 2: just got to got cobble hole inunt and those at
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  Speaker 2: small ones together and you get the big one altogether.
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  Speaker 2: Like you kind of you get enough to be a
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  Speaker 2: big one. On those awards that you were at on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 2: I think you predicted, if I remember correctly, that Julian
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  Speaker 2: Rain was going to win, didn't you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, no, I didn't. I mean Julian along with the
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  Speaker 3: South was a finalist, and I thought Vans Fatalist would
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  Speaker 3: win because I mean, let's be honest, you did negotiate
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  Speaker 3: a free trade agreement with the UK and the EU.
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  Speaker 3: But I was really pleased that Julian Rain wanted He
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  Speaker 3: absolutely deserves it. He's been around forever, even longer than me,
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  Speaker 3: and he's been into like dairy and horticulture. He's a
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  Speaker 3: real entrepreneur. He's been he's been the president of Horticulture
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  Speaker 3: in New Zealand. He was one of the instigators of
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  Speaker 3: the y Mere Dam project which is transforming that region
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  Speaker 3: in New Zealand, and he was a bit only found
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  Speaker 3: this out on the night he was about when they
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  Speaker 3: set up son Terra in two thousand and one. So look,
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  Speaker 3: he's had a finger and a lot of pies. He's
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  Speaker 3: a real entrepreneur. He's got his own ice cream and
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  Speaker 3: milk brands, and he's just a quiet, humble man, very
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  Speaker 3: very clever bloke and at at the peak of the season,
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  Speaker 3: I think he employs five or six hundred people. So
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  Speaker 3: I was really pleased from absolutely deserved.
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  Speaker 2: Did Todd Charteris of Rubbobank come and tell you off
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  Speaker 2: for your outfit?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was just I was making my way to
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  Speaker 3: get my first drink for the evening and he comes
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  Speaker 3: up and says, where's your kai? I said, well, what
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  Speaker 3: does it worry you? He said, oh, here, there's been
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  Speaker 3: chipping away at you on ZB for not wearing a tie.
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  Speaker 3: Good blood man, Heather. I honestly thought I even had
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  Speaker 3: half a snuff of the big Gong. Oh you would
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  Speaker 3: have put on a tie. So really it was just
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  Speaker 3: me protecting myself.
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  Speaker 4: Oh fair enough, Jamie. Look everybody's allowed a little bit
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  Speaker 4: of self protection. Good on you Jamie Jamie mckaie, host
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  Speaker 4: of the Country Got On. Todd charteris of rubber Bank,
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  Speaker 4: being a man.
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  Speaker 2: Of his word.
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