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Trump tariffs: Can New Zealand's meat industry handle the impact?

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 4 Mar 2025, 6:03pm
Red meat exports were down. Photo / 123rf
Red meat exports were down. Photo / 123rf

Trump tariffs: Can New Zealand's meat industry handle the impact?

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 4 Mar 2025, 6:03pm

It's a waiting game for our meat industry - with US tariffs looming large. 

President Donald Trump has confirmed tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China will begin in the coming hours. 

He's recently claimed agricultural products are next in the firing line for tariffs as early as April. 

Meat Industry Association chair, Nathan Guy, says our industry's ridden the wave of geopolitical uncertainty before.

"We export to about 120 countries around the world and we're very agile and nimble - I guess I'd like to think that our relationship is very strong with the US." 

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