Senate debates

Wednesday, 17 October 2018

Bills

Customs Amendment (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Implementation) Bill 2018, Customs Tariff Amendment (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Implementation) Bill 2018; In Committee

12:07 pm

Photo of Linda ReynoldsLinda Reynolds (WA, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Home Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I would again note a couple of things in relation to this. The labour market testing and the issues around that have been answered by you and others over many hours. So, in terms of the substance of that, I'll again point you to Hansard. Your specific question, which again is not relevant to these bills, relates to the debate before we signed the treaty back in March. Again, I'll point out that that is a discursive discussion better suited for estimates next week. However, as the senator well knows, that is almost a hypothetical, because it is market driven. So the government cannot tell you exactly how many, just as we couldn't with the Japanese, South Korean and Chinese free trade agreements because it is—

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