Strange Jamie; Rurawhe AdrianJAMIE STRANGE (Labour): Mr Assistant Speaker thank you for the opportunity to take a call on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (CPTPP) Amendment Bill. This certainly is as the previous speaker Dan Bidois said a very exciting day for this Parliament because we are going to be one of the early signatories to this agreement. That signals leadership and at a time when many countries are moving towards isolationism we are moving more towards working together. I was particularly proud of the comments that our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made recently when she talked about some of the false promises of protectionism. She said international trade has helped bring millions of people out of poverty around the world but she also noted that we must all work to ensure that the benefits of trade are distributed fairly across societies. This coalition Government have worked hard to ensure that all New Zealanders will benefit from this agreement.New Zealand has a proud history around free trade. As many people will know in 2008 we signed the first free-trade agreement (FTA) with China. The previous speaker asked about a pipeline of trade agreements. Well there are many discussions going on in this space—discussions currently with the UK the EU and also India.What this agreement does is it provides access to 10 key markets including Japan and Canada. I'd just like to highlight a few companies from my neck of the woods who would benefit from this agreement—just a couple of companies from the Waikato region. So Gallagher Group who are fairly well known across the country for fencing technology and security will certainly benefit from this agreement; Company-X around software solutions; and Progressive Hydraulics around manufacturing hydraulic systems. This is about us as a country keeping relationships with other countries and building on new relationships and our businesses will certainly benefit and all New Zealanders will benefit around this.Early ratification means an immediate levelling of the playing field for New Zealand exporters in some crucial markets. A couple of these key examples—one of them is kiwifruit. New Zealand incurs a tariff of 6.4 percent into Japan. Chile a key competitor in this high-value market pays zero tariff because of its current FTA with Japan. So the coalition Government is excited that we will have an FTA with Japan which will help our kiwifruit exporters. The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership will also immediately remove Australian beef exporters' current tariff advantage over New Zealand in the Japanese market. This has resulted in a decline in New Zealand's exports and the loss of $53 million to the industry per annum. We've heard about wine today so I'd just like to highlight some of the benefits in that area.It's very important that as a country we don't move towards isolationism and protectionism but move towards cooperation and working with other countries. As a small nation we're absolutely dependent on trade. There's only a certain amount of products that we're able to produce—that we should produce—in terms of comparative advantage so it's absolutely vital that free-trade agreements like this are signed that they continue to be signed and that we continue to play our part in a global community. I commend this bill to the House.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): I call David Seymour—five minutes.