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      <name>International Trade and Investment</name>
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          <heading>International Trade and Investment</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4623" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. Z.L. BETTISON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Ramsay</electorate>
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          <question date="2021-08-25" qonNum="690">
            <name>International Trade and Investment</name>
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          <inserted>690 <by role="member" id="4623">The Hon. Z.L. BETTISON (Ramsay)</by> (25 August 2021).  Does the government have a publicly available trade diversification strategy and, if not, is one being developed?</inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="5384" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.J.R. PATTERSON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Morphett</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Trade and Investment</name>
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          <question date="2021-08-25" qonNum="690">
            <name>International Trade and Investment</name>
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            <by role="member" id="5384">The Hon. S.J.R. PATTERSON (Morphett—Minister for Trade and Investment):</by>  I have been advised the following:</inserted>
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          <inserted>Trade is undertaken by business and not government.</inserted>
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          <inserted>The Marshall Liberal government’s international trade office network has been critical to providing support to the export industry particularly in relation to market diversification options, providing in-market information and connections to potential buyers.</inserted>
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          <inserted>The Department for Trade and Investment is responding to trade areas of particular need as they emerge and where government has a legitimate role.</inserted>
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          <inserted>For example, the Wine Export Recovery and Expansion Program was announced to aggressively drive South Australian wine export to the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and other key markets in direct response to the loss of market access to China.</inserted>
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