We asked readers: Should New Zealand challenge Donald Trump’s tariffs through official channels like the World Trade Organisation?
In last week’s poll, 73% of people believed New Zealand shouldn’t challenge Donald Trump’s tariffs through official channels like the World Trade Organisation. The other 27% believed New Zealand should challenge Donald Trump’s tariffs.
An overwhelming majority of voters thought taking action against United States President Donald Trump’s tariffs would be a bad idea.
Of the 73% who voted no, most thought antagonising the Trump administration was not a good move. “A WTO case would only alienate the Trump administration and open NZ to retaliation plus any outcome would not be enforceable,” one said.
“He seems to be ignoring any attempts to change his views and this could make us more of a target,” another said.
Some had a different reason for not taking action. “Anyone who thinks Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing doesn’t know anything about the master of making a commercial deal. The US economy is terminally ill and in that state it is no good to NZ, or any other country for that matter. A strong US will demand NZ’s healthy grass-fed (esp organic), GMOfree products and will pay well for them. Imagine if our dollar was in demand again.”
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