Bidois Dan; Rurawhe AdrianDAN BIDOIS (National—Northcote): Today is a great day to be a member of this House because today this House gets to reaffirm its commitment to free trade. When the rest of the world is looking at protectionism and rates of higher trade barriers New Zealand is saying No thanks." New Zealand is going to say that we want a country that is open to the world where our firms and businesses thrive internationally and where our people have the opportunities to live in a globalised world that we live in today—opportunities like Lifestream International which is a business in my electorate of Northcote. Lifestream will be able to take advantage of this bill to help them expand their global footprint even further therefore providing far more income back to its New Zealand shareholders and staff.Another company is Fraser's Car Ltd which is a company that sells Lotus replicas globally.David Seymour: Fraser singular.DAN BIDOIS: That's right and the honourable member David Seymour owns one of those vehicles. Thankfully out of this bill more people throughout the world are going to be able to have an opportunity to drive the vehicles from my electorate.The benefits of the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (CPTPP) are very clear from where I sit: up to $4 billion—bottom-line dollars—in our GDP estimated by 2040. An extra $2.5 billion in exports is also predicted by 2040. Jobs and opportunities for all of our kids in the 11 countries that make up the CPTPP nine of which I've travelled to myself—and I must say they're fantastic countries and I do hope New Zealanders get an opportunity to go on exchange and work in these countries and bring these foreign skills back to New Zealand.I do want to acknowledge that this has been an effort of multiple Governments throughout the years starting from Helen Clark's time back in 2005 right through to the current Government. I want to acknowledge the support from two parties of the opposite side of the House: the New Zealand First and Labour parties. I'd like to acknowledge all of the Ministers of trade—Minister McCully Minister Todd McClay and now Minister David Parker—for their commitment to this. I'd like to acknowledge the commissioners and everybody at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade for helping to push this through particularly at a time when this trade deal could have fallen apart when the USA announced that they were pulling out. New Zealand stuck in there. There were a lot of sceptics out there—of which I was one of those sceptics—and I'm very happy that this Government and the effort of our public servants was steadfast to bring this to a conclusion today.This is a unique agreement. Despite what the Green Party members say this is progressive. It sets the standards for trade in the Asia-Pacific region. It lowers barriers not only for goods but also for services. So whether you're a doctor or an engineer or a baker or a butcher you'll be able to take advantage of these countries and the opportunities that it has for our nation.I do want to say—look we need to get this done today and I'm very supportive of this bill. But in terms of the next steps we do need to continue to build more trade agreements in the future so I urge the Government to make sure that they've got a pipeline of trade agreements because this country is a trading nation as we know but our future depends on reaching out to the globalised economy and making sure that we are integrated and positioned to take advantage of that.The second is really making sure that we get the most out of this trade agreement and that means providing information to all of our small businesses on the opportunities to trade in these countries and making sure that we reduce the non-tariff barriers in particular. So I commend this bill to the House. Mr Assistant Speaker thank you very much.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): This is a split call. Five minutes—I call Jamie Strange."