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NZ remains unscathed by US-China trade war, but that's no reason for complacency

Written by Hongzhi Gao, Associate professor, Victoria University of Wellington

While tariffs have a direct impact on exporters in the US and China, third-party countries like New Zealand are more affected by non-tariff barriers.EPA/Aleksandar Plavevski, CC BY-ND

Despite disruptions to global value chains, the 18-month trade tensions between the US and China appear to have left New Zealand exporters unscathed so far.

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