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  • International trade: rules-based and NZ Interests.

    From Crash@nogood@dontbother.invalid to nz.general on Sun Feb 8 17:40:29 2026
    From Newsgroup: nz.general

    King Trump is destroying the system that advantages NZ and similar
    small trading nations. Wielding unlimited power to access the
    domestic USA market (the size of which is internationally significant)
    via arbitrary setting of Tariff rates, means that small countries like
    NZ live in fear of economic retribution from Trump.

    Should we be careful with political confrontation with the USA (ie
    call out Trump the bully on Greenland and the Ukraine etc.) because we
    might get punitive USA tariffs imposed, or should we do the right
    thing politically in the expectation that NZ Exporters can find
    alternative markets for stuff we export to the USA, and at the same or
    better returns?

    I would be happy to do the right thing and call out Trump as Canadian
    PM Carney has. However I have no skin in exporters who rely on the
    USA market.
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