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October 13, 2015
Labour leader Andrew Little on Paakiwaha with Willie Jackson
Waatea Team
Posted On October 13, 2015
Labour leader Andrew Little on Paakiwaha with Willie Jackson
Labour Party leader Andrew Little says a future labour-led government may have to breach to Trans Pacific Partnership to protect New Zealand’s interests.
Mr Little told Radio Waatea’s Paakiwaaha programme that despite big talk from Trade Minister Tim Groser, our negotiators had failed to crack the walls of protection around the dairy industries in the United States, Canada and Japan, the three biggest markets covered by the 12-country pact.
He says reduction of removal of other tariffs won’t make up what has been lost in dairy, and the benefit to New Zealand’s $7 billion manufacturing sector is just $10 million.
Mr Little says there are no significant benefits but a lot of new obligations and restrictions on the New Zealand Government’s ability to make laws and regulations.
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