Wall LouisaLOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Malo e laumalie 'Eiki Sea. It's my pleasure to take a call on this the second reading of the Tariff (PACER Plus) Amendment Bill. As a member of the Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade Committee I want to thank my colleague Tim Macindoe because I won't be now having to outline what this bill means in terms of benefits for our Pacific brothers and sisters can I call them. But what I do want to say is that what this bill will do specifically is ensure the application of preferential tariff rates for parties to the PACER-Plus agreement and amend the rules on goods re-entered after repair or alteration.So actually it hugely benefits our Pacific whānau this piece of legislation. I'm not quite sure about others' interpretation of the bill other than to say that we know as members of the Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade Committee and having to hear submissions about the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership itself before then considering the bill which is before the select committee that people are just anti-trade and those that are anti-trade don't believe that it benefits anyone other than the corporates. But what this piece of legislation does—this specific one—is actually provide better access. We'd reduce those tariffs as I've said so that commodities from the Pacific can enter our country and they are advantaged in doing so. We only had one submission before the select committee. It was a really interesting submission by Rural Women and the New Zealand Federation of Business and Professional Women of New Zealand—so Angela McLeod and Hellen Swales. They came to present on behalf of their sisters in the Pacific and they wanted to make sure that the voices of women were included in these agreements because from their perspective women actually have been explicitly excluded. So what I want to share with the House is that part of this piece of legislation—and I do want to just focus on what the objectives were when this particular agreement was discussed at the Pacific Islands Forum at their 40th meeting in August 2009. The why" was all about jobs. The "why" was about increasing standards of living it was about regional sustainable economic development it was about reducing poverty and contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and that really is what I want to focus on because what SDGs are we talking about?We're actually talking about SDG 9 which is about improving industry innovation and infrastructure. It is about SDG 8: creating decent work and economic growth. It is about SDG 7: providing affordable clean energy. It's also about SDG 5 which is all about gender equality. Herein lies the commitment that we managed to put in the select committee report. We were told—and I know Minister David Parker who is sitting in a chair beside me now is committed to ensuring that women are consulted on in terms of the Trade for All Agenda and the Pacific reset.So I just want to take the opportunity to thank Angela McLeod and Hellen Swales for bothering to make a submission to our select committee for coming and for advocating for our sisters in the Pacific. I'm reassured because of some of the statements our Minister has said and because we have committed to the Trade for All Agenda. I saw a press release on 6 August 2018—this is in the New Zealand context—and I quote "We want small and medium sized businesses women and Maori—who haven't always benefited as much as big business from trade deals—to succeed on the global stage." So there it is in writing.This Government is going to engage with groups such as indigenous peoples and women to make sure that these agreements actually fulfil the potential that we all hope them to have. It isn't just about big business; it actually is about supporting small and medium sized business owners—you know the mums and dads who are harvesting in our Pacific Islands—and providing clearer pathways easier pathways for their goods to come to New Zealand so we can purchase them. We can help to grow communities in our Pacific Islands whose main source of income isn't from their family who live in New Zealand who send that money back to the Islands; it's actually providing them with the tools and the resources to be able to look after themselves. Kia ora."