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Speech by Lianne Dalziel to the New Zealand China Free Trade Agreement Road Show
Speech - Beehive - 3 June 2008

In anyone's terms, signing a Free Trade Agreement with China, which we must remind ourselves is the fastest growing economy in the world with a population of 1.3 billion people, is a hugely significant achievement for New Zealand, a small South Pacific nation of only just over 4 million. This FTA gives our enterprises a competitive head start in this vital market...more