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Speaker 1: One of the country's major apple growers, is calling it

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Speaker 1: quits on sending fruit to the US because of the tariffs.

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Speaker 1: Yummy Apples reckons it's just not worth it anymore. Last season,

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Speaker 1: the apples they sent stateside returned a dollar less than

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Speaker 1: they cost to produce. Paul Painter is the general manager

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Speaker 1: of Yummy Fruit and with US Morning Paul, Good morning Paul.

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Speaker 1: Was this a tough decision or was this something that

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Speaker 1: you could see coming for a while.

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Speaker 2: No, not a tough decision at all. Basically, if they

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Speaker 2: want to charge you fifteen percent tariff and you can

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Speaker 2: sell it somewhere else, it's what you'll do. So apple

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Speaker 2: exports to the US have fallen about thirty percent in

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Speaker 2: the last two years. I think the tariff's probably a

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Speaker 2: big part of that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, is the tariff's the straw that broke

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Speaker 1: the camel's back, Because it looks like there are other

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Speaker 1: issues going on there as well, like oversupply, and therefore,

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Speaker 1: you know, lower profits are lower lower prices.

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Speaker 2: Oh, you're well informed. Yes, Wall streets taken over the

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Speaker 2: apple growing business. I always say when the big city

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Speaker 2: money's and farming, the end is nigh. But that's what's happened.

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Speaker 2: So they've parted a lot of new apples and the

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Speaker 2: market's a bit a bit depressed, a little bit oversupplied,

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Speaker 2: and so they slap a tariff on our products in

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Speaker 2: terms of apples, but in terms of things like beef,

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Speaker 2: where they're short and the prices are high and the

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Speaker 2: consumers using the tath disappears.

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Speaker 1: Now, where are you going to send your fruit instead?

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Speaker 2: Well, that's a good question. Well, if it's a sweet apple,

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Speaker 2: you've probably set it off to two Asia, somewhere in

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Speaker 2: China obviously being the biggest market. But the challenges if

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Speaker 2: it's a tart apple like a brayburn. In the US

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Speaker 2: through the Northeast and Midwest, you've got the Scandinavian, Polish, Gyman,

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Speaker 2: Irish people that like a bit of a tart apple,

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Speaker 2: and the Chinese certainly don't. So it is a predicament.

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Speaker 2: But what we're seeing is a real drop and those

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Speaker 2: are the production of those tart apples. So Bravery used

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Speaker 2: to be the biggest shipped apple in New Zealand, and

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Speaker 2: I think now it's down to about five percent of explorers.

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Speaker 1: Now, I love the tart apples. What about you?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I love them too, But you're the white girl.

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Speaker 2: I'm a what you're the white girl?

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean I one hundred percent of Irish stock

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Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff, So you know, it's

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Speaker 1: it's genetic. It's my tea Kunger. Basically it is. If

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Speaker 1: the tariffs are gone, right, if Trump changes his mind,

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Speaker 1: which is not unheard of, will you resume the exports

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Speaker 1: or stick with the new markets?

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Speaker 2: Ah, it's still a tough market. I will ship some

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Speaker 2: to the US at the CAFs were there, but it's

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Speaker 2: definitely a fading light for New Zealand way while places

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Speaker 2: like China are booming.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and what's next year? Is harvest looking like I'm

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Speaker 1: hearing it's pretty good?

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Speaker 2: Oh, unbelievable, the warmest spring I can ever remember. So

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Speaker 2: fruit size is big, not a lot of frosts, really

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Speaker 2: clean fruit where there's absolutely perfect. So you know we're

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Speaker 2: sicking here in a row. We're having your wonderful production season,

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Speaker 2: hippy growlers here.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I'm so pleased to hear that. Paul, look after yourself, mate,

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Speaker 1: have a nice stat it's Paul paint, a yummy fruit

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Speaker 1: company general manager. Tell you what it is. I reckon

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Speaker 1: and I'm just making this up on the spot because

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Speaker 1: I haven't actually spent a great deal of time thinking

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Speaker 1: about this, but I reckon the benefit of the tart

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Speaker 1: apple over the sweet apples. The tart apples quite a

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Speaker 1: tidy snack. So you eat it and you end up

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Speaker 1: you can like if you if you're prepare to go

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Speaker 1: core and all, which is what I'm into, Like, you know,

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Speaker 1: waste not, want not kind of thing, eat the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: You're just left with that little stick at the end,

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Speaker 1: and you haven't even got anything on your hands. But

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Speaker 1: you eat yourself one of those sweet apples, and you've

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Speaker 1: got sticky hands because they seem to This is just

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just I'm reaching back into the recesses

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Speaker 1: of my mind. But I feel like the sweet apples

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Speaker 1: are juicy, are kind of stickier, kind of messier thing,

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Speaker 1: which is like not really what you want out of

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Speaker 1: an apple. You eat the core, absolutely, I eat the core.

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Speaker 1: Don't you eat the core?

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Speaker 2: Not?

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Speaker 1: The seeds are yeah, the seeds, yeah, just swallow them,

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Speaker 1: swallow them home.

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Speaker 2: You know that's what they make.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, But I also know that they come in case

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Speaker 1: in their own little protective barrier. It's like a little

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Speaker 1: seed condom, isn't it, and you pop that, don't worry

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Speaker 1: about it just so you eat the seed condom, making

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Speaker 1: it sound efotatic. It's a bit of fire before you,

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