Displaying items by tag: DONALD TRUMP

OPINION: It's good news that Finance Minister Nicola Willis has slashed $1.1 billion from new spending, citing "a seismic global economic event" - Donald Trump's trade tariffs - and unsustainable debt, but with the Government reportedly borrowing $500 million a week, interest costs now exceed the combined budgets of Police, Corrections, Justice and Defence.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Winston Peters has sought to silence critics who insist that New Zealand should be responding hard and publicly to US President Donald Trump's tariff policy.

OPINION: Despite the volatility created by the shoot-from-the-hip trade tariff 'stratefy' being deployed by the new state tenants in the White House, farm commodity prices are holding their own.

OPINION: The irony of President Trump’s tariff obsession is that the worst damage may be done to his own people.

Since Donald Trump’s import tariff announcement, the world has been on a wild economic ride.

OPINION: The world is bracing for a trade war between the two biggest economies.

A global trade war beckons, which is bad news for a small open economy like New Zealand, warns Mark Smith ASB senior economist.

Fonterra says the US continues to be an important market for New Zealand dairy and the co-op.

Trade and Agriculture Minister Todd McClay says New Zealand's trade interests are best served in a world where trade flows freely.

OPINION: President Donald Trump's bizarre hard line approach to the world of what was once 'rules-based trade' has got New Zealand government officials, politicians and exporters on tenterhooks.