Historically trade policy has been one of the major factors affecting NZ exports. This isstill important with NZ restricted by quotas especially for access into high value markets.Moreover, other potential markets for NZ have been affected by the competition fromsubsidised exports. The EU (European Union) has recently announced it is going to, evenwithout the completion of current Doha round of the WTO (World Trade Organisation), removeexport subsidies. This has huge potential for our products.However, a great threat to our access especially into the high value markets is thegrowing concern about the environment. In particular the issue of climate change has grown inimportance as seen through the application of the Kyoto Protocol and issues such as “foodmiles”. This paper outlines some of these threats. Whilst this concentrates upon the UK andEU markets there is growing evidence that this is not just an issue for those markets. Othermarkets are also showing increasing concern about these factors.
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