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Speaker 1: Now, industry groups are pretty stoked about the news of

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Speaker 1: the free trade deal with the Golf States and the

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Speaker 1: deal we've signed with the Golf Corporation Council. It eliminates

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Speaker 1: almost all tariffs on our exports to Saudi Arabia, the

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Speaker 1: UAE and a few other countries over the next ten years.

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Speaker 1: And Trade Minister Todd McClay was on with Mike this

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Speaker 1: morning and said there's a lot of demand in these

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Speaker 1: countries for our food.

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Speaker 2: Certainly, the conversations I've had with the various countries and

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Speaker 2: all six of the trade ministers from these countries today

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Speaker 2: here when we are initialed the end of negotiation is

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Speaker 2: their desire to have long term, sustainable relationships where when

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Speaker 2: they need the food, we will supply it to them.

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Speaker 1: Kate Aklan is the chair of Beef and Lamin is

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Speaker 1: with us. Now, Hey, Kate, Hi, Heather, Kate, are you

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Speaker 1: surprised that the live sheep experts didn't come up?

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Speaker 3: Well, look pleasantly surprised. Yes, I mean, this is really

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Speaker 3: good news, this deal. It's not the GCC, that's not

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Speaker 3: the biggest market for red meat, but it's a really

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Speaker 3: high value market and it's for us to be one

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Speaker 3: of the fastest growing regions for beef and cheap meat consumption,

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Speaker 3: So you know, it is really good news.

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Speaker 4: Why were you pleasantly surprised that it didn't come up,

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Speaker 4: because surely if it came up and they still wanted

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Speaker 4: our live exports, then that's a whole export there that

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Speaker 4: we can make money off.

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Speaker 3: Look, I don't think live exports are on the table

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Speaker 3: at all, So you know, I think what we need

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Speaker 3: to do is really take advantage of the opportunity that

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Speaker 3: we have to, as the Minister said, you know, send

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Speaker 3: really high value, safe, secure food into what is a

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Speaker 3: great market.

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Speaker 5: What kind of tariffs are you guys facing over there?

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Speaker 3: Look, the tariffs aren't huge, but what this does that

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Speaker 3: these FDA agreements they give certainty to us that, you know,

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Speaker 3: as we are facing increasing geopolitical uncertainty and you're seeing

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Speaker 3: protectionist measures come on or the threat of protectionist measures,

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Speaker 3: these FTA is actually lock in tariff free trades. So

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Speaker 3: that gives us as farmers, really good certainty eat that

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Speaker 3: we have good diverse markets.

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Speaker 5: So, given that there aren't that many tariffs that you face,

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Speaker 5: or what tariffs you face are not that high, do

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Speaker 5: you think that the removal of the tariffs is actually

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Speaker 5: going to lead to a growth in the market over

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Speaker 5: there for you.

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Speaker 3: Look, I think it will and you know they haven't

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Speaker 3: done a lot of free trade deals with the GCC,

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Speaker 3: so actually this will give us a bit of a

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Speaker 3: it's a competitive market and this will give us a

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Speaker 3: competitive advantage over other countries like Australia who are currently

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Speaker 3: selling quite a lot of product in there.

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Speaker 5: Are you as impressed with Tod McClay as I am?

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Speaker 5: And I wasn't expecting him to knock it out of

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Speaker 5: the park like this.

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Speaker 3: Oh look, I think he's doing a great job. He

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Speaker 3: seems to be taking a really sort of pragmatic approach

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Speaker 3: to getting this trade deal through. So long way it continued,

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Speaker 3: it's too.

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Speaker 1: Right, Okay, thank you man, I really appreciated. Kate Aklan,

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Speaker 1: chair of Beef and Lamb.

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