LOUISA WALL (Labour): Tēnā koe, te Māngai o te Whare. It is my pleasure as a member of the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee to speak at this first reading of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Legislation Bill. For those who are listening from home, RCEP is a treaty-level trade agreement agreed by 15 countries, 10 of those members belong to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). They are: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, plus five countries which ASEAN has free-trade agreements with. They are: Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, and New Zealand. 