A push to minimise barriers on our red meat export industry. 

The Meat Industry Association and Beef and Lamb New Zealand have revealed non-tariff trade barriers are costing the industry an estimated $1.5 billion every year.

Beef + Lamb Chair Kate Ackland told Ryan Bridge the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade is working on 194 different non-tariff barriers the sector's facing.

She says the red meat industry is worth $10.4 billion, so $1.5 billion is significant. 

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