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Joshua Tan: Export NZ executive director on NZ seeing the highest monthly trade surplus in years · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Our exporters are smashing it. We just had a trade
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  Speaker 3: souplus come in for last month one point four billion dollars.
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  Speaker 3: That's the first time we've topped the billion dollar mark
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  Speaker 3: in five years. Joshua Tan from Export New Zealanders with
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  Speaker 3: us A.
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  Speaker 2: Joshua, good afternoon, Heather.
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  Speaker 1: How are you is this I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thank you? Is this down to the price of butter?
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  Speaker 2: Well? I think there's a few different things here, and
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  Speaker 2: the result comes on the back of strong performances across
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  Speaker 2: the food and beverage sector. Dairy is up, fruit is
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  Speaker 2: up by about two hundred and sixty five million dollars,
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  Speaker 2: red meat is also up about two hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 2: million dollars, and logs and wood exports are up one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and forty one million dollars. So from our perspective,
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  Speaker 2: as a team effort from the food and fiber sector.
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  Speaker 3: Are you trying to avoid talking about the butter No,
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  Speaker 3: not coming story, Joshua, It's a good news story. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: look at what dairy is doing. It's not just the butter,
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  Speaker 3: is it. It's the butter and the cheese and the
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  Speaker 3: milk powder. Up from six hundred and one million to
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  Speaker 3: two point two billion.
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  Speaker 2: That's massive, totally, and it shows that there's really strong
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  Speaker 2: de mind out there for what New Zealand has to offer.
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  Speaker 2: Our exporters earn more money overseas they bring it back
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  Speaker 2: to New Zealand and that can only be positive for
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  Speaker 2: the local economy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, totally. Now why does it happen in April? Is
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  Speaker 3: this because we've got an overlap of a couple of seasons.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, totally. So April is traditionally a strong month for
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  Speaker 2: New Zealand exports. The seasons for dairy and most fruit
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  Speaker 2: sectors overlap, so it does mean that we've typically had
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  Speaker 2: a bumper month in April. This one's obviously been especially strong.
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  Speaker 3: What's going on with offal.
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  Speaker 2: So offul is quite an important export in the meat sector. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: we want to be quite sustainable and make sure that
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  Speaker 2: we're exporting every single part of the animal. So look,
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  Speaker 2: there are countries out there, there are people out there,
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  Speaker 2: including myself, who do sometimes like to eat off or
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  Speaker 2: I guess.
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  Speaker 3: What do you get into Joshua.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to say, and I don't really want to
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  Speaker 2: embarrass myself on national radio.
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  Speaker 3: I'll embarrass myself. I like the brains because when you're
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  Speaker 3: eating the little lamb brains, it's like, you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: like it's all nice and mushy, and then you get
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  Speaker 3: those crunchy little bits in the middle of it, like
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  Speaker 3: corn flakes. So what do you.
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  Speaker 2: If it's me at a young char restaurant, then I'll
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  Speaker 2: give into the chicken feet and the and the tripe
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting. Good for you to see how what I did
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  Speaker 3: there was I shared my secret to make you share
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  Speaker 3: your secret.
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  Speaker 2: So thanks for playing game.
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  Speaker 3: As Joshua Tan from Export New zeal nothing wrong with
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of awful A not like I just
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  Speaker 3: can't get into the bloods though. The blood stuff is
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  Speaker 3: that's just too tangy. That's that's too much, isn't it.
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