Mark Vaile (Lyne, National Party, Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

The interjection by the member for Griffith is about sugar. Last year our sugar exporters exported an extra 52,000 tonnes of sugar into the US market. Whereas part of the agreement we negotiated with the United States was to eliminate the 35 per cent tariff on canned tuna, today we have had word from the Port Lincoln tuna processors—and I am sure the member for Grey will be very pleased to hear this—that they are sending their first shipment of 10 containers of canned tuna—processed, manufactured, product—out of South Australia into the United States as a result of the US free trade agreement. We remember that most of those opposite, following the member for Werriwa, tried to scuttle the deal that we put together.

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