World Top Exports founder Daniel Workman takes a look at the Global sales from kiwifruit exports by country which sees New Zealand rated No 1.
Global sales from kiwifruit exports by country amounted to US$2.5 billion in 2016. Overall, the value of kiwifruit exports were up by an average 20.1% for all exporting countries since 2012 when kiwifruit shipments were valued at $2.1 billion. Year over year, the value of global kiwifruit exports appreciated by 8.7% from 2015 to 2016.
Among continents, Oceanian countries (mainly New Zealand) accounted for the highest dollar worth of exported kiwifruit during 2016 with shipments valued at $1.2 billion or 47.4% of global kiwifruit exports. In second place were European exporters at 40% while 7.1% of worldwide kiwifruit shipments originated from Latin America (excluding Mexico) and the Caribbean. Smaller percentages were sent from kiwifruit exporters in Asia (4.2%), North America (0.9%) and Africa (0.3%).
Kiwifruit Exports by Country
Below are the 15 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of kiwifruit during 2016:
The listed 15 countries shipped 98.4% of global kiwifruit exports in 2016 by value.
The listed 15 countries shipped 98.4% of global kiwifruit exports in 2016 by value.
Among the above countries, the fastest-growing kiwifruit exporters since 2012 were: China (up 712.3%), Hong Kong (up 123.2%), Iran (up 99.2%) and New Zealand (up 41%).
Those countries that posted declines in their exported kiwifruit sales were led by: Lithuania (down -62.7%), France (down -25.8%), Netherlands (down -20.9%), United States (down -14.4%) and Chile (down -13.2%).
| A Wtex release || October 23, 2017 |||
As Donald Trump whips the world into a frenzy with his tweets, China is plotting a trillion-dollar global trade revamp which could change everything reads an article in The NZHerald.
It's being dubbed the "New Silk Road" which could redefine global trade and mark a tipping point for a new Asian century.
So far, 68 countries including New Zealand have signed up to the President Xi Jinping's "One Belt, One Road" (BRI) project, but it's left Aussie politicians divided and scratching their heads, according to an international relations expert.
"I don't think the government has done a great deal of thinking about this," Australian National University's Dr Michael Clarke said.
"But, I've heard from my contacts in government that there is a very definite divide between the security agencies who have strategic concerns and the departments of trade and agriculture, which are looking at BRI as a big economic opportunity for Australia."
This was backed up today, with the ABC reporting that the Australian heads of the immigration and defence departments told the Turnbull Government earlier this year not to join BRI.
However, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade were reportedly broadly in favour of joining.
Beijing's massive plans, which were first unveiled in 2013, involve the reviving of an ancient land and ocean silk trade routes.
It has already spent billions of dollars on new infrastructure projects for roads, railways, ports and maritime corridors.
Continue to read the full article on the NZHerald || October 24, 2017 |||
Last Thursday a 72-year-old man used his time at the most-watched podium in the land to make a rather extraordinary ideological statement about the state we find ourselves in and, it seems, to swing a hammer at what has felt like a layer of thick ice between New Zealand as it is and New Zealand as it will be writes Anna Connell for Newshub.
"Far too many New Zealanders have come to view today's capitalism, not as their friend, but as their foe” said Winston Peters
"That is why we believe that capitalism must regain its responsible - its human face. That perception has influenced our negotiations."
In making these remarks, Peters joined Dame Anne Salmond and Jim Bolger as elder statespeople calling time on neo-liberalism, and in making the call to go into coalition with Labour, propelled Jacinda Ardern, a 37-year old woman, to the top political role you can hold in New Zealand. In an odd twist for our country and maybe Peters himself, he became a catalyst for a new generation of political leadership and a new kind of thinking.
Ardern is the first of her generation to hold the office of Prime Minister and her ascension is symbolic of more than the ideology she represents as a member of the Labour Party or the ideological disenchantment Bolger and Peters refer to.
Ardern, like me, sits on the cusp of latest of the late Gen Xers and the Millennial generations. We both grew up in the Waikato and may have battled against each other at the finest of sporting events for nerds, interschool debating. Ardern is not only the first political leader whom I can refer to as a peer and a contemporary but one of the first leaders across any sector who is more like me than not. And that is exciting, not just because my generation now has a PM in its number but because, as Salmond says, ‘it marks a changing of the guard between generations, and a time to try out new ideas.’
In part, Ardern comes equipped to try out new ideas simply by virtue of what being her age means. The New Zealand she grew up in, what she learned at school and the changes she has observed are all markedly different to that of her predecessors English, Key and Clark. She has lived almost half her life in the 21st century and the future is less likely to look like the Jetsons in her head and more like driverless cars.
Maile Carnegie, Group Executive, Digital Banking at ANZ bank recently shared her views on what it takes to shift a legacy business into the 21st century at a symposium in Sydney earlier this year. While I have never been a fan of equating government with business, I can’t help but refer to her use of the term ‘the frozen middle’ in reference to businesses struggling to adapt in the context of New Zealand right now.
Having friends who are renters won’t be unusual to this PM and the desire to use public transport rather than drive will be something she’ll understand. There will be no ambiguity from this Prime Minister about same sex marriage or whether climate change is a real threat.
Within business the frozen middle is a layer of middle management who Carnegie says “are no longer are experts in a craft, and who have graduated from doing to managing and basically bossing other people around and shuffling Powerpoints.”
The frozen middle is the most conservative layer in the organisation and the most resistant to chnage. Individuals within the ‘frozen middle’ will choose the safety of the tried-and-true over inventiveness and ingenuity. Carnegie names tackling the ‘frozen middle’ as one of the greatest challenges business leaders must face. “The frozen middle will resist change like death.” She says.
For a lot of my career, it has felt like being a part of my generation was akin to being underneath that frozen middle and waiting for it to crack or lightly thaw. Like many people of my age, I have spent a lot of time convincing people older than me that social media wasn’t a fad, that same-sex marriage wasn’t going to be the end of the world, that using basic Te Reo in signage or speeches shouldn’t be optional and that consumers did care about things like the environment and gender equality. I have spent a lot of time arguing for evolution and adaption knowing that what they regarded as contestable was, in fact, a fait accompli. I have expended a lot of energy in essentially being told to accept the things I cannot change while watching them become inevitable.
No one is going to have to explain social media to Ardern. Facebook, Netflix, Uber and Air BnB will all be well embedded technologies used by the PM’s peers as opposed to reasons you call your kids and Ardern’s contemporaries have probably all had mobile phones for at least 15 years. Having friends who are renters won’t be unusual to this PM and the desire to use public transport rather than drive will be something she’ll understand. There will be no ambiguity from this Prime Minister about same sex marriage or whether climate change is a real threat. Ardern will be a Prime Minster that will attempt to correctly pronounce Māori placenames and use Māori language because that is the right thing to do and Guyon Espiner speaking Te Reo on RNZ won’t just be a good thing but a normal thing in a country where Māori is an official language. Our government will look more like the New Zealand we live in than ever before because diverse representation will be a norm, not an exception.Winston Peters - an unlikely but effective ally to New Zealanders seeking generational change in the corridors of power. Photo: Lynn Grieveson
Accepting these things as the status quo and not contestable ideas isn’t ideological, it’s generational and it’s a prerequisite to being able to move conversations and ideas on from where they’ve been languishing in the change resistant frozen middle. With Ardern as Prime Minster there is hope and optimism and it’s about more than policy or ideology. There is a new generation feeling empowered to make change and there is now space for us to have the conversations we need to have; conversations that are different from the ones we’ve been having for the last 30 years.
I owe much of this week’s column to being able to have some of those new conversations with friends over eggs and many pots of coffee on Saturday. One of those friends sent me a text on Sunday with a quote from Dr. Angela Davis that she described as ‘maybe summing up a bit of the tipping point I was trying to articulate.’
‘I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.’
I think that quote more than maybe sums up the tipping point we’re at. What was once change is now the status quo, creating more room for the pursuit of greater change and less acceptance of not being able to make it.
The gap between New Zealand as it is and New Zealand as it will be has shrunk somewhat as a new generation steps up and oddly enough, we owe some thanks to a 14 term, pre-Boomer politician called Winston.
| A Newshub release || October 24, 2017 |||
DIY defeat in which Blindness to symbols blended with analysis-induced paralysis.
Political buffs everywhere will refer to the fall in 2017 of the National Government as an example of how flourishing terms of trade and other positive economic indicators are insufficient to compensate for a failure to quickly get on top of emotive domestic issues.
The National Government fell through becoming paralysed by its own over-analysis.
It could never get a clear vision of its overriding objective which was to stop its older adherents bolting to Winston Peters and his New Zealand First alternative party.
Similarly, National had to lock in its farmers.
Yet with its inability to put out clear policies, notably on water, National allowed Winston Peters to insert himself in the policy vacuum and declare himself the champion of farmers
Again, in taxation, National was unable to put across the obvious dual message to the effect that yes, capital gains tax was a good idea, but oh dear! It simply had had the opposite effect of the one intended in countries that had it. They might have quoted Spain, for example
In a curious example of reverse laws in physics, the more advisers and “consultants” the Nationals recruited to its cause from at home and abroad, the less the grasp it gave the impression of having on the issues
Neither was it able to recognise its own strengths in order to de-fuse the anticipated accusations of absence of much caring-sharing in regard to minority groups. It’s allegiance with the now extinct Maori Party was one of these hidden symbolic advantages.
It was in its absence of comprehension of political symbols that from the outset of its third term that the governing-alone National Party was most manifestly out of its depth.
The caucus, the Parliamentary party in toto, did not know how to handle a celebrity prime minister, and especially one who would not be taking them into the next election
Without anyone to counter his own exuberance, the caucus allowed Mr Key to launch his personal flag-changing campaign which was to alienate the growing proportion of its elderly supporters, and to near universal surprise, a sizeable chunk of the younger ones as well.
A pride of the National government was that under the tutelage of old Wall Street hand prime minister John Key, it understood pretty much what was going on in United States politics.
In the event it gave the impression of having little comprehension at all.
It seemed as surprised as its contacts in United States media and politics that Donald Trump became the new president.
It was revealed for example that the National government had signed off on a large donation to the Clinton Foundation.
Worse was to follow.
The National government now followed through on its pledge as a temporary member of the United Nations Security Council to back a measure against Israel.
This had the effect of alienating its support among New Zealand’s accelerating congregations in evangelical churches in which anything to do with the holy land is regarded with extreme sensitivity
As the election drew near and grappling now with the excesses of house prices and unable to explain how this was due in part to regulatory constraints, many introduced by Labour, the National Government now stood mutely by as it found itself on the receiving end of the biggest own goal in New Zealand political history.
Former prime minister, by now Sir, John Key now sold his Auckland property.
New Zealand is quite different from the United States and Australia in that great wealth is not necessarily admired.
Attitudes to large scale individual capital formation can quickly change from sneaking regard, furtive envy, to outright resentment
Which is what happened now as the general election drew near .
Neither can the National Party point to Fifth Column-style enemies of the type that are supposed to be neutral.
Certainly not the mainstream media.
The old legacy media nowadays is neither to the right nor to the left.
It is though intensely pc, something which National finds it hard to grasp, and thus accommodate itself to.
In the end it was a DIY defeat.
National fell into all the bear traps dug for it by Winston Peters.
Then added its own.
| From the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. || Monday 23 October 2017 |||
With what3words, Chris Sheldrick and his team have divided the entire planet into three-meter squares and assigned each a unique, three-word identifier, like famous.splice.writers or blocks.evenly.breed, giving a precise address to the billions of people worldwide who don't have one.
In this quick talk about a big idea, Sheldrick explains the economic and political implications of giving everyone an accurate address -- from building infrastructure to sending aid to disaster zones to delivering hot pizza.
You can view the address by Chris here
| A TED release || October 19, 2017 |||
#6 - The millennialist panic was that all the world’s computer programming would freeze up as 1999 turned into 2000. This it was said would cause aeroplanes to fall out of the sky, and utilities such as electricity to switch off thus crippling transactions everywhere. This was based on a short-cut in the then tiresome business of writing programmes which had caused programmers simply to cut everything off at the end of the last century.The position nowNobody bothered to investigate non standard but widely used computer systems such as the Pick one which had actually expired by this time, yet continued to operate perfectly well beyond its nominal expiry date
| MSC Newswire Big Frights of Our Times Series #6 || Monday 23 October 2017 |||
Palace of the Alhambra, Spain
By: Charles Nathaniel Worsley (1862-1923)
From the collection of Sir Heaton Rhodes
Oil on canvas - 118cm x 162cm
Valued $12,000 - $18,000
Offers invited over $9,000
Contact: Henry Newrick – (+64 ) 27 471 2242
Mount Egmont with Lake
By: John Philemon Backhouse (1845-1908)
Oil on Sea Shell - 13cm x 14cm
Valued $2,000-$3,000
Offers invited over $1,500
Contact: Henry Newrick – (+64 ) 27 471 2242