Browning Steffan: Border Processing (Trade Single Window and Duties) Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBrowning Steffan: Border Processing (Trade Single Window and Duties) Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 27 August 2013. Volume:693;Page:13095. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]STEFFAN BROWNING (Green): I rise to take a call on the Border Processing (Trade Single Window and Duties) Bill. The Green Party is supporting it at this stage. We are looking forward to the select committee stage to hear some details and examples of how the benefits of this bill will be actualised. We are very optimistic about this bill in terms of its efficiency and following on from the other speaker we will also be looking to see particularly on biosecurity its effectiveness. Certainly we appreciate the intended and expected benefits to border processing.There are a couple of points in particular that I will be interested to hear about from officials. One is the exemptions for the re-importing of goods exported. There is a whole wide range of scenarios that could be imagined around that. It is clear that they are meant to be in the same or substantially the same condition as when exported from New Zealand. I am keen to hear about that. It is in section 109 inserted by clause 14. I am keen to hear what the examples of those are and what those situations are. I can imagine that a fair bit of that will be about shipping and stuff—just having some sort of efficiencies of transport but still coming back past and not wanting to be open for tariffs or other conditions. So we can expect from that I assume that off-shore value adding of product from New Zealand will not be exempt on re-entry. But I look forward to getting some clarification around that.Another part is the de minimis part in section 118. I will be looking forward to hearing about what the regulations may allow around that. That is looking at the valueof goods below which duty need not be collected so the officials again at the select committee consideration will be able to run some scenarios for us. Clearly in the regulatory impact statement it is pointed out that there are issues around the internet—purchasing around the internet. That balance between the cost of say enforcement or the bureaucracy around collecting appropriate revenue from that importation relative to the value of it is clearly the issue. It has certainly come up in other situations where the big loss of GST because of overseas internet purchases becomes relevant and it becomes relevant through this bill.I would also like to speak on biosecurity for a bit. I do see that this bill allows for a much better flow of information and a very tidy and efficient way of getting information about shipping about goods coming and going. There are some reasonable expectations and some penalties for those who do not play ball with the appropriate information-sharing. But as our friend over in Labour just said the important part of course is effectiveness. So we do need to ensure that whatever system we have in place is absolutely effective. We are still having failure around biosecurity. It is still costing us millions upon millions of dollars and unfortunately these things are often in perpetuity because they are not able to be resolved as my friend who was speaking directly before will know because in his region we have got the great white butterfly as one of those examples. So no matter how efficient our information system is in coming in ultimately it does come back to the effectiveness the inspections and the ability for biosecurity to jump on top of these situations. I am watching that one very very closely because I am really concerned that that pest is likely to get away. I am not sure that New Zealanders understand the seriousness of that. If it becomes a mainstream pest throughout New Zealand it would have a huge impact and there would be lots of ramifications.The Green Party is supporting this bill. We will be looking at what some of those examples are so that we know we have got an absolute full understanding of the ramifications of the different parts of it. We are looking forward to that and to seeing this bill no doubt progress reasonably speedily right through the process. Thank you.