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    From Rich80105@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 2 15:50:08 2024
    From the South China Morning Post :

    New Zealand said on Monday all its dairy products were now able to
    enter China duty-free as safeguard duties on milk powder ended on
    December 31, marking the removal of all remaining tariffs agreed upon
    in the free trade deal between the two counties.

    New Zealand was the first developed country to sign a free-trade
    agreement with China in 2008, with the imports of milk powder subject
    to the longest phase-out. An upgraded trade deal was entered when
    former Prime Minister Jacinda Arden met President Xi Jinping in 2022. ________________________

    Let us hope that the current government can meet their promise of a
    trade deal with India, and that we meet climate change targets so that
    we do not lose access to markets for our primary produce.

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  • From Crash@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 2 17:25:46 2024
    On Tue, 02 Jan 2024 15:50:08 +1300, Rich80105 <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    From the South China Morning Post :

    New Zealand said on Monday all its dairy products were now able to
    enter China duty-free as safeguard duties on milk powder ended on
    December 31, marking the removal of all remaining tariffs agreed upon
    in the free trade deal between the two counties.

    New Zealand was the first developed country to sign a free-trade
    agreement with China in 2008, with the imports of milk powder subject
    to the longest phase-out. An upgraded trade deal was entered when
    former Prime Minister Jacinda Arden met President Xi Jinping in 2022. >________________________

    Let us hope that the current government can meet their promise of a
    trade deal with India,

    No government can promise that. IIRC National (PM Luxon) promised to
    make it a priority. This is typical of the sort of rhetoric you roll
    out Rich when it comes to any government that is not Labour-led.

    and that we meet climate change targets so that
    we do not lose access to markets for our primary produce.

    I am not aware of any specific threats to trade from climate change
    targets. Can you elucidate? Our major trading partners are all major
    emitters of greenhouse gases so it defies logic that they could
    reasonably impose trade restrictions in this way.


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    Crash McBash

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  • From Tony@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Jan 2 06:09:58 2024
    Rich80105 <[email protected]> wrote:
    From the South China Morning Post :

    New Zealand said on Monday all its dairy products were now able to
    enter China duty-free as safeguard duties on milk powder ended on
    December 31, marking the removal of all remaining tariffs agreed upon
    in the free trade deal between the two counties.

    New Zealand was the first developed country to sign a free-trade
    agreement with China in 2008, with the imports of milk powder subject
    to the longest phase-out. An upgraded trade deal was entered when
    former Prime Minister Jacinda Arden met President Xi Jinping in 2022. >________________________

    Let us hope that the current government can meet their promise of a
    trade deal with India, and that we meet climate change targets so that
    we do not lose access to markets for our primary produce.
    No reason to doubt that at this time.
    Let us also hope that they get rid of all of the racist and undemocratic initiatives and plans of the last government (including the secret ones).

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