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Speaker 1: New exemption proposal for food exporter is going to be

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Speaker 1: put out for consultation. So currently food produced for sale

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Speaker 1: and export needs to meet domestic standards and if food

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Speaker 1: for exporters produced to meet other country standards, they have

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Speaker 1: to apply to MPI for an exemption. Now the government

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Speaker 1: wants to remove the requirement for individual export exemption applications

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Speaker 1: and assessments by MPI. The Food Safety Minister, Andrew Hogart

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Speaker 1: is with us. Andrew, very good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Mike.

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Speaker 1: So basically what we're doing is cutting red tape here

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Speaker 1: pretty much.

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Speaker 2: There was an early request from particularly the dairy sector.

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Speaker 2: A number of the companies came to me and said

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Speaker 2: the missing out on market opportunities and it's making it

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Speaker 2: hard for them to be able to get products to

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Speaker 2: the market quickly. So other countries are looking elsewhere. So

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Speaker 2: it just seemed like a really simple one to move

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Speaker 2: on as quickly as I could and come up with

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Speaker 2: some better options for them.

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Speaker 1: What was the argument for it, I'm not sure.

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Speaker 2: There wasn't a It's just how it was done. It

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Speaker 2: was sort of one of those things that had I

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Speaker 2: think been stuck there and stayed there and no one

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Speaker 2: was quite sure. Why.

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Speaker 1: Okay, when you talk about consultation, is there consultation you're

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Speaker 1: just going to get on and do it.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, No, We've got to go through a couple

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Speaker 2: of weeks of consultation. There is some differing options in

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Speaker 2: there as to how this could be applied. And also,

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Speaker 2: I mean most of our contact has been with the

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Speaker 2: dairy sector, who have been the industry sort of most

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Speaker 2: impacted by this, So opportunity for any other sectors that

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Speaker 2: haven't really been utilizing the system or talking to us

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Speaker 2: about it to actually pipe up as well.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what's the time frame on it? When does it

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Speaker 1: go and when does it make a difference?

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Speaker 2: I would hope. I'm still learning the rules as to

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Speaker 2: how all of these timings and things work, but my

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Speaker 2: understanding is once that consultation's over and we can get

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Speaker 2: a clear, agreed pathway, hopefully, I would I would hope

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Speaker 2: sometime next year or as sooner than that, if possible.

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Speaker 1: Excellent, While I've got you in your rural hat on

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Speaker 1: in general terms in Europe for days, this banking and

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Speaker 1: quirt that's been announced, and we'll talk to Nicola Willis

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Speaker 1: about it shortly. The mood of the farmer and the

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Speaker 1: social license of the banks is the real issue.

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Speaker 2: There's definitely an issue here. You know, when I was

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Speaker 2: in my old job, I had to talk about the

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Speaker 2: banking survey every six months and it just I was

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Speaker 2: repeating myself every single time. The trend was just going down,

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Speaker 2: going down, going down. There is definitely a mood of

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Speaker 2: dissatisfaction amongst farmers around how the banks are working with them,

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Speaker 2: and I guess the margins in particular recently have really

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Speaker 2: the additional margins over house lending has really hurt a

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Speaker 2: lot of farmers, particularly with where interest rates are at

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Speaker 2: the moment. So from a lot of people, the main

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Speaker 2: concern they're telling us is, you know, interest rates are

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Speaker 2: the key thing that's creating the hurt right now, more

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Speaker 2: so than yeah.

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Speaker 1: You're meeting the Chinese premier among others today. Are you

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Speaker 1: bullish on trade with Chine in general? From your particular

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Speaker 1: perspective dairy, agg hoart, etc.

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Speaker 2: I think it's been there's been a really good long

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Speaker 2: term customer for New Zealand and my expectation as we

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Speaker 2: can continue to build on that relationship and keep sending

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Speaker 2: higher value products there as their economy comes right and

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Speaker 2: get more and more middle class people there wanting to

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Speaker 2: buy good nutrition from New Zealand. So I think there's

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Speaker 2: differente upside and there's obviously other markets we need to

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Speaker 2: be working on as well around the world.

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Speaker 1: Good and speaking of the field days, good reaction to

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Speaker 1: the ets move.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, lots of handshaking and back patting and well

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Speaker 2: done and other sort of happy sounding grunt noises coming

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Speaker 2: from farmers that go past.

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Speaker 1: Me yep as to talk to you again Andrew Hoggar,

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Speaker 1: the Food Safety Minister, among other things. Of course. For

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