Displaying items by tag: DONALD TRUMP

Wednesday, 20 August 2025 10:55

Editorial: Hope for the best

New Zealand's dairy industry is right to call out Donald Trump over the damage the additional 15% tariff the US is imposing on our exports but also imposition on lower tariffs on our competitors.

Published in Opinion

Donald Trump's uncompromising tariff policy is set to put New Zealand dairy exports to the US under huge pressure.

Published in General News
Wednesday, 13 August 2025 13:55

Editorial: We are Trumped

OPINION: Nothing it seems can be done in the short term to get Donald Trump to change his mind about removing the unfair 15% tariffs that he’s imposed on New Zealand exports to the US.

Published in Opinion

Two leading New Zealand trade experts warn that the 15% tariff slapped by the US shouldn't be taken lightly.

Published in General News
Friday, 01 August 2025 17:00

NZ red meat sector hits out at US tariff hike

New Zealand's red meat sector says the United States' decision to increase tariffs on New Zealand exports is disappointing.

Published in General News
Tuesday, 22 July 2025 11:25

Farmland security

OPINION: Paranoia about foreigners is at an all-time high in the US and attention is now turning to foreign-owned farmland.

Published in Milking It
Wednesday, 21 May 2025 12:25

Debt monster

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.

Published in The Hound

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.

Published in General News
Thursday, 08 May 2025 11:55

We're OK!

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.

Published in The Hound
Thursday, 24 April 2025 09:25

Own goal

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

Published in The Hound
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