Uffindell SamSAM UFFINDELL (National—Tauranga): Thank you Mr Speaker. I rise to congratulate Minister McClay on the NZ-EU free-trade agreement which will be gaining Royal assent on 1 May. We made sure that it came into force early and my goodness have there been some good wins for our exporters as a result.Now let me take you through a few of the good points of this. When it comes into force it will increase our exports via the EU by $1.8 billion annually—a substantial amount from a Government that is focused on trade and trading with the world. And I do of course have to acknowledge the other side for their work but I will congratulate Mr McClay for his work and making sure that we got it into force quickly and efficiently. It notes that we will have 91 percent of duties removed when it comes into force and 97 percent after seven years. When you consider the incredible amount of primary produce that we export—it constitutes 80 percent of our goods exported; it's the backbone of our economy; it's the way we pay for our way in the world and pay for the goods and services that we need—this is a very good free-trade agreement.The EU is our fourth-largest trading partner with around $20 billion in two-way goods and services traded on an annual basis—very significant amounts. We're noting tariff savings of $100 million per year on New Zealand exports.Katie Nimon: Game-changer.SAM UFFINDELL: It is a game changer—it is. It certainly is. It certainly is for the people of Tauranga and the Bay of Plenty. It certainly is for the good people of Napier and the Hawke's Bay and for all exporters out there. We note significant new quota access for beef and sheep meat butter and cheese products as well which is very good for our primary producers.I'm going to talk to some of those savings in particular and in the region where I come from Tauranga—Hon Member: It's got to be kiwifruit.SAM UFFINDELL: —we have a lot of kiwifruit in the area—you picked it—significant amounts of kiwifruit and we're looking at around $43 million in tariff savings for kiwifruit growers which accounts to on average an annual saving of $16000 per grower.I want to give a little mention to the growers in Tauranga and the Bay of Plenty and surrounding areas because they have had a very challenging couple of years: labour shortages during the COVID era and then some very poor weather conditions last season which led to damaged fruit and reduction in trays being put out to market. I know the good people in my region will be very very happy with the crop that's coming through at the moment. Zespri is gearing up to sell 190 million trays this season which is fantastic and there are some good savings and tariff reductions coming up.I'll also give a mention to our friends at New Zealand onions and our onion growers out there are hardworking growers who will see tariff savings of around $6.5 million a year—now apple growers with around $1.3 million per year; wine growers with about $5.5 million in tariff savings per year; and of course mānuka honey as well getting out there with about $3.5 million in tariff reductions per year. And while we're doing all of this a lot of it does come through the Bay of Plenty and through Tauranga and it's important that we keep upgrading our infrastructure to ensure we can get these goods out to market in a timely and efficient manner. We have some significant infrastructure projects under way: the Takitimu North Link State Highway 29 bringing our goods over from the Waikato and out through our major export port of New Zealand the Port of Tauranga and looking forward to seeing Hewletts Hull and Totara hopefully upgraded in the near future because we certainly need that investment.Before I finish I want to give a special mention again to Minister McClay but also to the Rt Hon Winston Peters because they understand that the way New Zealand gets wealthy is if we get out there and we trade with the world. We aren't going to get wealthy trading with ourselves. We aren't going to get wealthy growing mega Government bureaucracies and shuffling paper back and forth. The way we do it is to grow and to export and to innovate and to improve our productivity. We have got a Government here and a Foreign Minister and a trade Minister who understand what we need to do to build our relations and to build our trading networks. There are good times ahead for New Zealand. Thank you Mr Speaker.