more than 10 per cent. The IMF says the same. It notes that half of the productivity gap between New Zealand and the OECD average is as a result of geography alone. My point is that our distance from markets has a price. It is a challenge that we first overcame with technology. As the late Sir Paul Callaghan wrote, it was "refrigerated shipping [that] lifted New Zealand from subsistence trade to relative wealth". In a new century we're faced with the same challenge. And technology, again, offers the solution. Our primary industries are important -- and always will be -- but it's our ideas and talent; our science and innovation that underpin our future, both in agriculture and beyond. The potential gain for New Zealand from the development and export of high tech and high value products is immense. That is something we are acutely aware of in the current TPP negotiations. Labour is committed to taking a principled approach that puts New Zealand's interests front and centre. There is little doubt that gaining access to new and larger markets may offer huge opportunities. We have always supported trade agreements that deliver benefits to New Zealand in terms of exports and jobs. But not at the expense of our right to make laws and regulations for the public good on a whole range of issues -- and that includes intellectual property and copyright. We also need to think beyond red meat and milk powder. We also have to enhance