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Bharat Chawla: India New Zealand Business Council Chair on the beginning free trade negotiations · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: News for New Zealand trade, well, potentially good news for
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  Speaker 1: New Zealand trade. We've got a government delegation landing in
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  Speaker 1: New Delhi this week for the first round of talks
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  Speaker 1: towards an ft A. They're a market of one point
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  Speaker 1: four billion people. I don't need to tell you that.
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  Speaker 1: Notoriously tough on f t a's they are, though, Barrett's
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  Speaker 1: Charla is with us. He's India n Z Business Council chair.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning, jan How are you very well?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 1: What what? How are these talks going to work? Because
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  Speaker 1: there's a framework which Australia used which we're apparently going
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  Speaker 1: to piggyback off the back off, Is that right?
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  Speaker 2: I think yeah, this is what It'll make it easier
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  Speaker 2: also because in the framework of dealing with Australia or region,
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  Speaker 2: which makes easier for New Zeland to follow or I
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  Speaker 2: think Indian would follow that, if I'm not wrong.
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  Speaker 1: We want a better deal than the Aussie though, don't
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  Speaker 1: we Yeah, we.
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  Speaker 2: Want a better deal than AUSSI the simple as.
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  Speaker 1: That, what are we going to do to get it?
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  Speaker 1: What are the big what are the big prizes we've got?
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  Speaker 1: Because obviously we want dairy right, which is which is well,
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  Speaker 1: what are the big prizes that they want from us?
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  Speaker 2: I think India wants tech in their wants primary industry
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  Speaker 2: including ki fruit and which I said, the dairy provides
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  Speaker 2: a lot of support. Also it's in terms of the
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  Speaker 2: infessional salms and not. At the same time, yes, must
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  Speaker 2: looking for more of the people to invest in India.
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  Speaker 1: Also, what about because I saw the CEO of Sadima
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  Speaker 1: Hotels the other day talking about visas you know visas
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  Speaker 1: for Indian workers but now being processed in New Zealand
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  Speaker 1: because of worries about scams in India slowing things down,
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  Speaker 1: making it harder. Would that be a little fruit we
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  Speaker 1: could dangle.
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  Speaker 2: I totally agree Ran. If you see when we went
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  Speaker 2: to India we have immigration and education a CEOs or
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  Speaker 2: a kind of high officials does. So we are expecting
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  Speaker 2: with this FTA, the people movement would become easier. And
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  Speaker 2: that is what Indian government always wants with any FDA
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  Speaker 2: they do. And if you see for tourism, music and
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  Speaker 2: also they want vise us to be steam lined to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that the numbers increase, multifolds to make it
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  Speaker 2: a much better deally.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, good stuff, Barrett charl I really appreciate your time
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  Speaker 1: this morning, India New Zealand Business Council Chair. That delegation
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  Speaker 1: from New Zealand off to New Delhi this week, which
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  Speaker 1: has got to be a good thing. For more from
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