It said that the Hawke’s Bay Fruitgrowers Association, Heinz Wattie’s and Hawke’s Bay MP, Craig Foss, all put their weight behind rejection of the ATP and were successful in getting that idea thrown out by Cabinet last week.

However, HortNZ said it still remains concerned about a key aspect of the changes to the legislation which will apply a ‘public interest test’ to each opportunity of dumping, before a tariff is considered and possibly applied. The industry body believes a public interest test is usually weighted heavily in favour of the consumer, as opposed to the local producer.

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