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    Episode 8 – The Ruakura Superhub: with Dave Christie. In this episode Redefining Trade is joined by Dave Christie, Supply Chain Strategy Director at Tainui Group Holdings, New Zealand. Dave talks to host Peter Foyston about the long-term journey that the Ruakura Superhub (Waikato, NZ) has taken, from just an idea full-scale construction underway on the first 92 hectares of inland port and logistics hub. Dave talks about how the Ruakura Superhub will help de-carbonise the supply chain of New Zealand’s ‘golden triangle’ of Auckland, Hamilton and Tauranga that generates around 65% of the country’s import and export cargoes. The episode is available on YouTube now (in video format) as well as on podcast streaming platforms (Spotify, Google, Apple) YouTube video: https://youtu.be/AKSuH5E1pSo Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0EESOGEVLAIPpWMy9NqntD?si=l7GEthSUR0Grap9g8_Hdsg&dl_branch=1 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/the-ruakura-superhub-with-dave-christie/id1532140588?i=1000524861665      

All’s fair in trade and war: The latest episode of digital trade platform TradeWindow’s new podcast features trade guru Pru Gordon sharing a behind the scenes look at some of Australia’s biggest trade deals. A behind-the-scenes glimpse into game-changing trade deals is explored in the latest episode of Redefining Trade, the podcast by digital trade platform TradeWindow. Pru Gordon, whose trade experience spans 25 years, revealed to podcast host and TradeWindow Chief Sales & Marketing Officer Peter Foyston a handful of highlights in her career, including seeing former trade representative for the United States (U.S.), Michael (Mike) Froman, grapple with Andrew Robb, Australia’s former Minister for Trade and Investment, over the controversial issue of biologics in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Negotiations between Australia and the U.S. centred around the protection of data used to determine the ethics and effectiveness of biologic medicines, which Gordon said was a make-or-break issue in the partnership for several countries, including Australia which came under significant pressure to shift its position. “It was fascinating to see Mike Froman – who is an unbelievably articulate and impressive person – come up against Andrew Robb, who is equally impressive with his own set of skills, but quite different,” Gordon recalled. “Andrew Robb absolutely understood the importance of those negotiations and the number of other countries in the TPP who were really relying on Australia to hold the line on this issue. It was fantastic to see the dynamic, and the different personalities of the two key negotiators and how that influenced the dialogue and way the issue was negotiated.” Another of Gordon’s most memorable moments was at the 2015 Nairobi Ministerial Conference, when World Trade Organisation (WTO) members agreed on a historic decision to eliminate agricultural export subsidies – the most important reform of international trade rules in agriculture […]