Catherine Beard: Business NZ Director of Advocacy on Australia scrapping tariffs and if NZ should follow suit

The Mike Hosking Breakfast - A podcast by Newstalk ZB - Tuesdays

Tariffs across the ditch are getting scrapped to lower living costs and some are asking if New Zealand should follow suit.  Australia will remove import taxes on a wide range of goods from July to bring cost-of-living relief.  It will streamline $9 nine billion worth of annual trade and save businesses over $30 million yearly.  Business NZ's Catherine Beard told Mike Hosking that we got rid of most tariffs in the 1980s, there’s just a few left.  She says it's a legacy of the past —as most of them left are between 5-10%— and aren't doing much.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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