Some good news for New Zealand

11 comments

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   steve says:

   November 24, 2009 at 11:10 am (UTC 12 )

   yes. while most of that growth is clearly in China or India (and this will continue, together they are more than a third of the world population), which means large export markets are becoming closer and closer to NZ relative to the expense of exporting to the US or EU.

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   Matt Nolan says:

   November 24, 2009 at 11:11 am (UTC 12 )

   @steve

   Spot on comment Steve, spot on.

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   Paul Walker says:

   November 24, 2009 at 11:15 am (UTC 12 )

   Matt Nolan :
   @steve
   Spot on comment Steve, spot on.

   Yes but it will take a long time before the income per capita of China and India reach the levels of the US and the EU, so the US and EU will still be big importers of our products and India and China less so.

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   Matt Nolan says:

   November 24, 2009 at 11:19 am (UTC 12 )

   @Paul Walker

   Yes the US and EU will remain important, and yes Chinese and Indian per capita GDP is a long way below US and EU per capita income.

   However, we have already seen our trade position switch sharply towards Asia – nearly 25% of our trade now goes to Asia ex Aussie!

   Given the faster growth in total income in Asia (which is what matters given that we are looking at commodity demand) and given that it is cheaper to ship to Asia then to the US or EU this is a positive structural development for NZ.

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   Miguel Sanchez says:

   November 24, 2009 at 11:31 am (UTC 12 )

   Paul Walker :
   

   Yes but it will take a long time before the income per capita of China and India reach the levels of the US and the EU, so the US and EU will still be big importers of our products and India and China less so.

   It’s not like there’s a substitution going on. Our Anglo markets are growing and our Asian markets are growing faster.

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   Miguel Sanchez says:

   November 24, 2009 at 11:40 am (UTC 12 )

   As you can see, I am failing to get to grips with this html stuff.

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   Bill Bennett says:

   November 24, 2009 at 8:29 pm (UTC 12 )

   @Paul Walker
   Well yes, but China’s appetite for food is immense and that’s what we do really well. Mind you I understand Chinese have a problem digesting milk – can’t we put our food technologists on to that?

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   Miguel Sanchez says:

   November 24, 2009 at 9:37 pm (UTC 12 )

   Food technologists are already on top of it – for example in Finland, which has a high rate of intolerance, they’ve developed a way to remove most lactose from milk. Anyway, lactose intolerance generally isn’t widespread before adolescence, and I gather that China’s push to drink more milk is largely aimed at children.

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   Matt Nolan says:

   November 26, 2009 at 8:13 am (UTC 12 )

   @Miguel Sanchez

   All this coding stuff sucks, not a fan

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    Calgary web says:

    November 26, 2009 at 10:02 am (UTC 12 )

    i would say that NZ is in a great position to provide a huge amount of exports to the growing Giant, you guys just need to understand how to capitalize on it. Lactose or not!

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    Bjorn Gernstein says:

    November 29, 2009 at 10:07 am (UTC 12 )

    China is a sleeping giant, but it begins to stir. Not too long in the future it will import next to nothing while exporting nearly everything. I think we should be worried.