Christopher Luxon

Then it will go into the select committee process.

How long that process goes on will allow sufficient time for public consultation.

But I think, you know, everyone understands this is an amazing, you know, we've done a very good deal here.

And the fact that we can get it signed as we have this weekend also means that with any other process,

country does any better deal than us.

We've got these most favoured nation clauses in there.

So particularly on, I think, wine, we felt the Europeans might have got a slightly better deal than us.

So that means we get that upgraded to the same deal as they have.

So there's a whole bunch of things like that.

But I think if we can get the bill to be passed by the end of September, that would be good and get entry into force by the end of the year.

We're just going through every, just looking at every single bit of regulation that essentially is, you know, potentially getting in the way and would be problematical if we should move to phase two down the road.

And we just want to make sure that we're doing everything we can.

If there's any stupid regulations that are getting in the way, we'll remove them.

So we've actually been working with Don and the freight team.

They've given us some really good input.

We also, you know, we've actually been engaging really well with industry on that stuff.

And I think we've got to a good place on it.

Well, I think there's a lot of bureaucracy in New Zealand that seems to have been built up over the last 20 or 30 years that we're trying to get rid of.

But this is just common sense stuff, which is that if you can allow heavier vehicles to carry more weight, that's good.

Less trips required, better fuel efficiency.