NZ in good shape ahead of UK, Europe FTA talks - meat rep

NZ in good shape ahead of UK, Europe FTA talks - meat rep
Brent Melville
If China stopped taking New Zealand meat exports tomorrow, it wouldn’t take long for the sector to sell that volume into its other major markets, says Jeff Grant, the NZ meat industry's former man on the ground in Britain. The spread and impact of covid-19 on global trade, particularly with NZ’s most important trade partner China, reinforced the “critical importance” of nailing down free-trade agreements with both the UK and the European Union. Top of NZ’s wish list, he said, was getting substantive increases for NZ beef exports, which cu...

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