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Speaker 1: New Zealand is going to sign this free trade deal

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Speaker 1: with India. Surely, the massive boost that we got and

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Speaker 1: we still enjoyed to this day from Halen Clark and

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Speaker 1: Phil Goff signing the China FDA is still very much

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Speaker 1: fresh in mind, as it should be. Hipkins sounds pretty

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Speaker 1: upbeat about it. Are just a few questions that they're asking,

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Speaker 1: but he says, Caucus is going to look at it

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Speaker 1: and make a decision. Of course, it'll need to support,

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Speaker 1: It'll need the support of labor, It'll need the support

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Speaker 1: from across the aisle because New Zealand first isn't keen

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Speaker 1: on it. Now. The Europeans have just done a massive

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Speaker 1: deal with Deli overnight. Vonder Lane is there in India

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Speaker 1: getting the red carpet treatment from Mody. Combined, they make

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Speaker 1: up twenty five percent of the world's GDP, massive and

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Speaker 1: the market size two billion people. They've been negotiating this

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Speaker 1: for years and years, like decades. Finally have a deal,

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Speaker 1: in part because of Trump's tariffs He's still got fifty

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Speaker 1: percent on India, but also because India has managed to

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Speaker 1: secure protections for It's what they call sense of industries dairy.

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Speaker 1: They say they have prudently safeguarded sensitive sectors, including dairy.

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Speaker 1: Now we generally treat trade as a bipart as an

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Speaker 1: issue in New Zealand, and there's little reason to think

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Speaker 1: this deal will be any different, barring any major red flags.

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Speaker 1: With the details. Of course, many of the details we

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Speaker 1: actually don't know yet as the public, but the opposition

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Speaker 1: is being briefed on. If that checks out, it's probably

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Speaker 1: going to just be a rubber stamping exercise. You would

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Speaker 1: have thought. After all, we are like the world's FTA cheerleaders. Basically,

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Speaker 1: any international conference or meeting we go to, we run

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Speaker 1: around with a clipboard trying to sign people up, Come on,

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Speaker 1: please do a deal. So much so we actually have

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Speaker 1: now a check this morning. Seventy percent of our global

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Speaker 1: trade is covered by FTAs, and I think it's reasonable

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Speaker 1: to only expect that will increase, perhaps easier once Trump

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Speaker 1: leaves off US too. For more from Early Edition with

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