In 2017, in a regulatory impact statement on this bill, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade advised that New Zealand's other Five Eyes partners all possessed the ability to impose sanctions outside of the United Nations regime, with a growing risk that New Zealand would be perceived as an easy target because of gaps in the range of sanction measures able to be imposed. The limited sanction type powers that are currently at the Government's disposal are not seen either here or by like-minded partners as being sufficient to address situations of real concern, a perception which may have only increased in recent years. I note that our traditional allies—the United Kingdom, the United States, the European Union, and Canada—all have their own regimes of this kind, and have the ability to impose targeted sanctions where appropriate.