New Zealand has finally secured an enhanced free trade deal with China, but there's not yet a dollar figure on the financial benefits for local exporters.
It will make it cheaper and easier for exporters at the border, and will give the forestry sector some tariff reductions.
The quid pro quo is changes to the visa scheme for jobs here including tour guides and Mandarin language teachers. The news came in the middle of the East Asian Summit in Bangkok.
RNZ political editor, Jane Patterson, is there and filed this report.
