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Speaker 1: Barris, senior political correspondent with Right Now at twelve minutes

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Speaker 1: away from five. Hey, Barry, good afternoon.

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Speaker 2: I just say one of the classic quotes from Donald

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Speaker 2: Trump today, Oh Lord, no, no to me. It gives

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Speaker 2: you an indication of what may come if he loses.

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Speaker 2: He said, we want a landslide too big to rig.

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Speaker 2: Ask yourself what that means.

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Speaker 1: That is what I was just talking to Dan Mitchinson

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Speaker 1: about this. It's the stop the steel movement, right, Anything

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Speaker 1: that's tight he is going to contest and claim that

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Speaker 1: it's been stolen off him.

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Speaker 2: He's already doing that.

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Speaker 1: He's setting the scene for Barry. How good is that

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Speaker 1: FTA with the GCC.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's excellent. Actually, I remember not that long ago

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Speaker 2: we were talking about the trade deal with the UAE

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Speaker 2: and that sounded okay, and I said, well, it's really

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Speaker 2: small beer compared to the Gulf States.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what we've.

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Speaker 2: Been after now they say for eighteen years. I remember

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Speaker 2: being there originally with John Key. We went to Saudi

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Speaker 2: Arabia and places like this. Well that it encompasses Saudi Arabia,

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Speaker 2: the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain. So

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Speaker 2: it's massive. This is very big. A two way trade

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Speaker 2: at the moment is only three billion dollars, but this

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Speaker 2: is a very wealthy part of the world and it's

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Speaker 2: one of the biggest halal parts of the world when

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Speaker 2: it comes to sheep meet and you know, certainly we

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Speaker 2: should be looking forward to this with great enthusiasm because

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Speaker 2: it is big deal. And even though Tod Mclair's getting

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Speaker 2: all the accolades today, the renegotiation was started in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty two, so and that's officials really that they started

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Speaker 2: started it up again because I remember at the way

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Speaker 2: back at the time when they originally talked about it,

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Speaker 2: they were essentially telling us that the ink only had

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Speaker 2: to dry on the contract and they were about to

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Speaker 2: say it never came off. And you remember that was

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Speaker 2: because of live sheep exports. Well, apparently during the negotiations

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Speaker 2: this time they won't even mention which is.

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Speaker 1: Only the third FTA that the GCC has signed yep.

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Speaker 2: So incredible, Yeah, they're not, yes, exactly, it is incredible.

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Speaker 2: And for a country like New Zealand that is rich

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Speaker 2: in food and particularly sheep.

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Speaker 1: Having said that, they don't really use a lot of tariffs,

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Speaker 1: so there's probably not that much of a desire to

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Speaker 1: get fta's with them, right.

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Speaker 2: No, they don't. The tariffs are small, but look the

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Speaker 2: five year phase on most of the tariffs under this agreement,

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Speaker 2: the tariffs are going from five percent, as you say,

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Speaker 2: very small to zero. And if you look at like

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Speaker 2: sheep meat at the moment, the trade is not enormous,

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Speaker 2: but basically there's two hundred and forty five million dollars

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Speaker 2: that's the red meat exports to this part of the world.

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Speaker 2: The tariff costs on those are seven and a half

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Speaker 2: a million, even seven and a half million. That means

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Speaker 2: a lot to a farmer out there. And if they

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Speaker 2: can increase that trade, I think it's great news for him.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what's Takuza Ferris done?

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Speaker 2: Oh? This man? You'd have to ask yourself, wouldn't you?

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Speaker 2: That Ferris had been questioning Muriel Newman, and some people

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Speaker 2: may remember her being a former ACTI MP. She was

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Speaker 2: the founder for the New Zealand Center of Political Research

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Speaker 2: and the Think Tanks associate director Frank Newman. They were

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Speaker 2: in front of the Justice Select Committee and it was

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Speaker 2: being cheered by what would have to be a political

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Speaker 2: newbie is James Mego and he's from Rangatata, but he

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Speaker 2: seemed to take what was a foul comment in his stride.

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Speaker 2: Here's mego just after he cut Ferris's questioning.

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Speaker 3: We will be winding the sun now we are looking

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Speaker 3: over time. So thank you consumement for your submission, Toss.

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Speaker 3: We'll move on to our submission apples on more society,

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Speaker 3: alter it or thank you first comments mister Ferris.

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Speaker 2: And what he called him was an iffing racist. And

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Speaker 2: this man does this sort of thing. He's to me,

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Speaker 2: he's when you look at him with the Moldy Party.

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Speaker 2: Is Labor going to embrace this because if they win

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Speaker 2: the election, then the Maldi Party will be part of

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Speaker 2: the mix. And you've got people like this. He's already

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Speaker 2: before the Privileges Committee for misleading the House and he

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Speaker 2: most certainly did. And actors wanting to put him back there. Sorry,

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Speaker 2: they've written to the Speaker.

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Speaker 1: I suspect Labour's going to have to rule them out

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Speaker 1: in order to get across the line themselves. Barry, thank

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Speaker 1: you very much, Barry Soper, Senior Political Correspondences, and we'll

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