House debates

Thursday, 27 November 2014

Questions without Notice

Trade with China

2:50 pm

Photo of Andrew RobbAndrew Robb (Goldstein, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade and Investment) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Wannon. He is a wonderful advocate for agriculture and a man with a big future. His electorate is set to benefit big time from this free trade agreement that was concluded a couple of weeks ago. As a region strong in dairy, beef, lamb, wool, wine and horticulture, agriculture is worth $1.47 billion to the Western District. With the free trade agreement, the Western District will see that tariffs of up to 25 per cent for beef with will go, tariffs of up 23 per cent for sheep and lamb will go—

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