RCEP is critical to our trade-led recovery as an agreement that enables the reduction and removal of tariffs, new investment flow opportunities, and new markets for exports. The areas of services and investment are where the big gains will be made, as well as the lifting of non-tariff barriers with China and the largest ASEAN countries having made investment and market-access commitments to New Zealand for the very first time. Exporters of sheep meat, beef, fish, milk, cheese, honey, and avocadoes to Indonesia, the fourth-most populous country in the world, will see tariffs eliminated on their products above and beyond the current arrangements. On non-tariff barriers, RCEP creates an expectation that customs authorities will, for example, release perishable goods such as seafood within six hours of arrival, including the release of such goods outside normal business hours, which should reduce spoilage and save exporters money. 