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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: Just this past week for TOSCU, the world's fourth biggest

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Speaker 2: iron ore miner, saying it will pay two point eight

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Speaker 2: billion to replace two thirds of its fleet of hollage

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Speaker 2: trucks and equipment in Western Australia with EV versions as

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Speaker 2: it seeks to cut diesel consumption and meet ambitious emissions

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Speaker 2: reduction targets. There's a lot going on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there sure is, and look we've got lots to

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Speaker 1: talk to Andrew Farist about it, joins us in studio,

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Speaker 1: executive chairman and billionaire of Perth, Australia based Fordescu in

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Speaker 1: town this week during the U and General Assembly and

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Speaker 1: Climate Week as well. Welcome to Bloomberg Business Week. How

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Speaker 1: are you? I'm on fire?

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: I'm just an exciting place right now. It certainly is.

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Speaker 1: And look at a time that we're going to talk

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Speaker 1: about your climate transition plan a moment, because that's a

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Speaker 1: really interesting conversation. We've spent all week talking about China

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Speaker 1: and the stimulus efforts being made there, and this is

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Speaker 1: a story that's very central to your business as well.

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Speaker 1: Imported iron or used in roughly of eighty percent of

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Speaker 1: Chinese steel production. Talk to us about the picture that

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Speaker 1: you're seeing of the Chinese economy from you're a side

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Speaker 1: of the business and the demand. How bad is it? Oh? Oh?

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Speaker 1: How good is I mean?

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Speaker 3: Basically, you've had mining companies being fat, dumb and happy

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Speaker 3: for a very long time because the anal price has

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Speaker 3: been so good. So we're all heroes. But now, oh

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Speaker 3: my god, the annual price is fallen, which means it's

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Speaker 3: a lot better value, by the way, for the customer,

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Speaker 3: and we have to work a lot harder as mine is.

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Speaker 3: We have to work harder to actually make a margin.

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Speaker 3: And that's a good thing. And when people think that

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Speaker 3: one throe, they think, well, how do I lower my margins? Well,

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Speaker 3: one third of my cost is diesel fuel one third, right,

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Speaker 3: one third. Imagine if we get rid of that. Oh,

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Speaker 3: by the way, we'd also be going zero missions if

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Speaker 3: we did that. So we've been working on this for

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Speaker 3: years and years and years, and to give you an

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Speaker 3: idea of how strong that demand is, because people are

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Speaker 3: looking hard at their operating costs. Now, we took years

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Speaker 3: and years to get up at three hundred and sixty

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Speaker 3: truck order. Now these are big trucks, right, you've got

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Speaker 3: the hub caps starting at the roof here, and yesterday

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Speaker 3: we signed another hundred and got walkins for another four

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Speaker 3: hundred in our day. So from three or four years

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Speaker 3: So this is showing you that the mining industry is saying, hey,

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Speaker 3: and Middle East driven because it wanted to go zero

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Speaker 3: missions because we bloody will have to as a human race.

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Speaker 3: But then we also have to prove that it's highly commercial.

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Speaker 3: And what you're seeing happen yesterday and today is that

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Speaker 3: going zero missions is highly commercial.

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Speaker 1: To just say you're not worried about China.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I've just come from China and I've just

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Speaker 3: I mean, I get accused when I'm in Chinese, when

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Speaker 3: i'm a China being very pro North American. When I'm

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Speaker 1: So no, but this is interesting. Look and love you both.

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Speaker 1: The narrative is so negative and has been for so long.

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Speaker 3: The problem I'm afraid you're wrong.

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Speaker 1: You are wrong.

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Speaker 3: I mean, here in North America, you haven't completely different system.

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Speaker 3: like that, and it's macroeconomic policy and it works really

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Speaker 1: It's a five percent growth and art a concern. It's

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Speaker 3: Look, I'm completely not worried about it. And by the way,

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Speaker 2: So Andrew, Basically what you're saying is China's like, Okay,

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Speaker 2: if there still isn't enough, we're going to do more.

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Speaker 3: And also, you know, I love North America because we're

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Speaker 3: This geostrategic war between North America precipitate, I want to

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Speaker 3: You don't do it by shouting at them from New

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Speaker 2: Well, does that then worry you about who's in the

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Speaker 3: Fortescue has a policy that we deal with any elected

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Speaker 3: if you want to put up Trump, I've got to

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Speaker 3: say this Ukraine badge. If there's a deal cut which

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Speaker 3: rewards an invader for invading a country which you've had

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Speaker 3: We're down in the Pacific and we're going to say

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Speaker 3: Where do we sit with North America? I mean where

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Speaker 1: Right, I mean, you're obviously very plugged into geopolitical tensions

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Speaker 1: because it's part of what affects your business as well.

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Speaker 1: When you're thinking about global climate solutions, and you gave

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Speaker 1: us some of the outlines of your plan there as well.

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Speaker 1: There's some people that are going to think it's highly

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Speaker 1: ironic that a mining company would be looking at a

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Speaker 1: green transition. I agree with them. What you know, green

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Speaker 1: iron or what is that is? That is? Do these

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Speaker 3: Let's start with three million tons of carbon docks, so

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Speaker 3: I'm not going out in the atmosphere. I mean, let's

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Speaker 3: it's hitting where the pollution is worst. And it's not saying, oh, well,

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Speaker 3: we're saying, actually, oil and gas has got us into

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Speaker 3: this manure. We've got to stop doing what we've always

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Speaker 3: And that's like green steel, that's like green shipping.

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Speaker 2: Now exactly though, is green iron ore? And what does

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to cost less.

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Speaker 3: Man, it's because we can make it for less, because

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Speaker 2: So is it cost competitive already?

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Speaker 3: is why I'm saying, listen, stop looking at gying green,

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Speaker 3: stop looking at zero missions as Oh, you're a really

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Speaker 3: nice guy. What a lovely chief executive, What a lovely

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Speaker 3: politician thinking of the kids, not himself. Actually, get out

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Speaker 3: of your hole. This is a great investment. You should

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Speaker 1: But why isn't everyone doing it? If the case is

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Speaker 3: Because everything starts somewhere, right, everything starts somewhere. I'm in

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Speaker 3: It turned out to be a suit, So we're the thread.

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Speaker 1: Talking about the conversations you're having here in New York

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Speaker 1: A fraction of the cost.

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Speaker 3: Where we've worked out already how to charge cars not

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Speaker 3: never go grannis it. Why mate, They said, well, our

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Speaker 3: go sixty mile an out they're green. And they've said, well,

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Speaker 3: you know, shipping shipping our warships. Our warships are like

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Speaker 3: we're sending them green so everyone can go green.

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Speaker 2: I am curious if you guys are going to be

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Speaker 2: also building wind farms, solar forums right next farms excuse me,

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Speaker 2: right next to some of your minds to help supply

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Speaker 2: green power, Like, what's is that part of the process.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is. It is absolutely and will supply power

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Speaker 3: us and powder to others. Right now, we're operating a

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Speaker 1: Over the world. I want to come back to hydrogen

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Speaker 1: because it's it's been talked about from years, has been

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Speaker 1: Where are the obstacles there? How far away is it

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Speaker 1: from being something that's going to be widespread, available, and

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Speaker 3: Okay, the only thing stopping the production of green heighten

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Speaker 3: North America. I mean, let's just remember that there's more

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Speaker 3: by fossil fuel. So everything is changing. What we're seeing

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Speaker 3: now is the whole growth, this massive growth of green

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Speaker 3: heighten green energy being held up by perfect getting in

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Speaker 3: the road of the good in the IRA. And if

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Speaker 3: we don't fix what a little thing called forty five V,

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Speaker 3: which is where the fossil fuel sector's got these environmental

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Speaker 3: independent lobbyists to say, hey, look we should have things

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Speaker 3: like ali matching. Well, okay, that's perfect.

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Speaker 1: Parts of your own industry are working against this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, but it's not my industry. It's the

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Speaker 3: environmental lobby is paid ball by fossil fuel. It's the

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Speaker 3: same same draw card, same playble as tobacco used. They

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Speaker 3: get so called scientists and to say tobacco doesn't kill you, mate, So.

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Speaker 2: It's money again, it's politics. And it's lobby.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and we have to Carol, we have to look

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Speaker 3: straight through that and say to your legislators and your legislators,

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Speaker 3: I've got to say, actually, we're not going to let

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Speaker 3: perfect kill off the good when no green hydrant.

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Speaker 1: Is the answer.

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Speaker 3: We will have weekly month matching or monthly matching. But

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Speaker 3: hourly matching just means the person who came up with

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Speaker 3: that's never driven or operated anything more complex than a

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Speaker 3: bloody computer, not these one two three mile long plants

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Speaker 3: which I.

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Speaker 1: Have to operate.

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Speaker 2: So thirty seconds left? Are you more optimistic after your

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Speaker 2: time here in New York and talking with global leaders

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Speaker 2: North American leaders, US leaders? Are you more pessimistic? Just quickly?

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Speaker 1: No, I'm more optimistic.

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Speaker 3: I'm more optimist because they trust what someone does more

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Speaker 3: than what someone says, and they can see we're doing it.

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Speaker 3: They can see Australia's high sharehold return company ever is

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Speaker 3: going fully green, and there's got to be a reason

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Speaker 3: for that. And they're making huge sales and they're profitable.

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Speaker 2: We wanted to be smart and fun when you came in.

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Speaker 1: Did we do it? Yeah? You're smart and fun. I

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Speaker 1: love such pressure.

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Speaker 2: Andrew Forrest, thank you so much Executive chair of course

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