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New Zealand - Implications of a trade war with China

New Zealand is playing with fire by criticising the human rights situation in China’s Xinjiang province. While China is highly dependent on New Zealand’s flagship dairy, meat and logs exports, it could impose restrictions on smaller product categories. We estimate that this could knock up to 0.5%-pts off GDP.

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