Stephen Jacobi: The US is a riskier trade partner than China
New Zealand exporters to the United States might be at greater risk of being disrupted than those exporting to China, according to one trade expert.
Despite talk about the need to diversify away from China due to geopolitical differences, it may be the United States that hits Kiwi businesses with tariffs intended to shut them out.
Stephen Jacobi, the executive director of the NZ International Business Forum, said a second Trump presidency was a “sword of Damocles hanging over the global economy”.
Speaking on the Of Interest podcast, Jacobi said the 45th president had imposed “enormous…
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