Dairy Industry Restructuring (Export Licences Allocation) Amendment Bill
This bill changes the rules for how New Zealand dairy businesses get permits (called export licences) to sell dairy products to five overseas markets — the USA, UK, European Union, Japan, and the Dominican Republic — at lower import tax rates. Currently, permits are handed out based on how much cow's milk a company collects. The bill switches this to being based on how much a company has actually exported in the past. It also opens the system up to businesses that make dairy from sheep or other animals, and sets aside a small share of permits for smaller exporters.
What this affects
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The bill changes who can get permits to export NZ dairy products overseas at lower tax rates, shifting from a system favouring large milk collectors to one based on actual export history, and opening a share of permits to smaller exporters.
export volume history, in relation to a person eligible to hold an export licence, means the total volume of products exported under a Tariff heading to all export markets over the previous 3 consecutive seasons
The Governor-General may, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the Minister, make regulations that reserve 10% of export licences per quota year for any 1 or more designated markets listed in Schedule 5A if the available export licences equate to a volume of 10,000 tonnes or more of product in that designated market.
export licences for each designated market listed in Schedule 5A are allocated… proportionately to eligible participants based on their percentage of the total export volume history
Progress through Parliament
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