{"id":295791,"date":"2025-11-16T21:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T21:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/295791\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T21:10:08","slug":"nz-welcomes-lifting-of-us-tariffs-on-1-25-billion-in-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/295791\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ welcomes lifting of US tariffs on $1.25 billion in exports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">WELLINGTON (Reuters) -New Zealand late on Sunday welcomed the United States&#8217; announcement that it \u200bwould remove additional tariffs on a range of New Zealand \u200cagricultural products, including beef, offal and kiwi fruit, but said it \u200cwould like to see all the additional U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/live\/trump-tariffs-live-updates-trump-vows-export-curbs-india-hike-on-deck-china-and-canada-envoys-visit-us-200619355.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:tariffs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tariffs<\/a> on New Zealand goods removed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">President Donald Trump on Friday removed tariffs he had imposed on more than 200 food products, including beef, \u2060amid consumer concerns about \u200crising U.S. grocery prices. The products represent around 25% of New Zealand&#8217;s \u200dexports to the U.S. and are worth roughly NZ$2.21 billion ($1.25 billion) annually, according to the New Zealand government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">\u201c\u200bThe U.S. remains an important trade partner for \u200cNew Zealand and the decision to lift these tariffs is a step in the right direction and will be welcomed by exporters who have faced months of uncertainty and higher costs,\u201d New Zealand&#8217;s trade minister, Todd McClay, said in a \u2060statement released late on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">He said \u200bit was only a partial rollback and \u200bthe broader reciprocal tariff framework continues to create cost and uncertainty for the country&#8217;s exporters. McClay said \u200dhe would continue \u2060to make the case that New Zealand&#8217;s trading relationship with the U.S. is balanced and that the \u2060additional reciprocal tariffs on other New Zealand exports should also be removed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">($1 = \u200c1.7612 New Zealand dollars)<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Lucy \u200cCraymer; Editing by Leslie Adler)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WELLINGTON (Reuters) -New Zealand late on Sunday welcomed the United States&#8217; announcement that it \u200bwould remove additional tariffs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[75142,23,25136,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-295791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-agricultural-products","tag-america","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}