Unlike the unfortunate scenes the world witnessed from Labour MPs and activists as we negotiated the TPP, National will not play politics on trade, so much so that the scrutiny of this bill by the Foreign Affairs, Defence, and Trade Committee made virtually no changes. As the Minister noted, there are some technical changes that need to be made to some law to enact this legislation: simple things like the bill will enable preferential tariff rates under the partnership and make an amendment to provide for eight years of transitional safeguard mechanisms to provide temporary relief to domestic industries. It also makes minor technical changes to the Customs and Excise Act of 2018 that allow authorised third party certification bodies to operate for the purposes of the RCEP. It brings new market access for New Zealand exporters to Indonesia through tariff elimination on a number of products, including sheep meat, beef, fish, dairy, honey, and some horticulture.