{"id":541764,"date":"2026-07-24T10:20:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/541764\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T10:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:20:30","slug":"new-zealand-pm-says-new-us-tariffs-extremely-disappointing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/541764\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand PM Says New US Tariffs &#8216;Extremely Disappointing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                                        New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon speaks to the media after events with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (not pictured) in Auckland on July 11, 2026. (Photo by Michael Bradley \/ POOL \/ AFP)\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Wellington, New Zealand \u2014 New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon condemned new US tariffs on Friday as &#8220;extremely disappointing&#8221; after his and 59 other countries were slapped with fresh levies over forced labour concerns.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The US investigation did not provide meaningful evidence to support claims in relation to forced labour,&#8221; Luxon said on X.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Tariffs are not the way &#8212; they drive up costs and uncertainty for businesses,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The levies, effective Friday, range from 10 percent to 12.5 percent and impact major economies like China, India and the European Union.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">New Zealand faces a 12.5 percent rate.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Australia was also slapped with the same levy, with trade minister Don Farrell describing them as &#8220;unjustified, inconsistent with our free trade agreement, and should be removed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon speaks to the media after events with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,266527,43,139,69,52],"class_list":["post-541764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand-mdash-new-zealand-prime-minister-christopher-luxon-condemned-new-us-tariffs-on-friday-as-quotextremely-disappointingquot-after","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}