1 week ago 'Real tension going on there': PM doubles down on 'trade war' comment

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. Photo: RNZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has repeated his view that there is a trade war playing out between the US and China, despite the foreign minister calling that language "hysterical".

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1 week ago Electronics, including smartphones and computers, excluded from Trump's China tariffs

President Donald Trump. Photo: Reuters US President Donald Trump's administration granted exclusions from steep tariffs on smartphones, computers and some other electronics imported largely from China.

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1 week ago Smartphones, computers among Trump's China tariff exclusions

President Donald Trump. Photo: Reuters US President Donald Trump's administration granted exclusions from steep tariffs on smartphones, computers and some other electronics imported largely from China.

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1 week ago Peters takes veiled swipe at PM's 'hysterical' tariff response

Winston Peters at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2025. Photo: Supplied Winston Peters has taken another veiled swing at the prime minister's phone call to world leaders over US tariffs.

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2 w. ago Prime Minister Christopher Luxon condemns 'trade war' aftermath of Trump tariffs

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon believes New Zealand is well positioned amid the uncertainty. Photo: RNZ By Craig McCulloch of RNZ  New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has made his strongest condemnation yet of US President Donald Trump's tariffs, denouncing a shift away from agreed rules and the risk of a global trade war.

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2 w. ago Trump threat to hike China tariffs further as markets plunge

Trump administration officials say the President is following through on a promise to reverse decades of trade liberalisation that he believes has undercut the US economy. Photo: Reuters A global trade war touched by United States President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs has escalated further, as Trump threatened to increase duties on China and the European Union proposed counter-tariffs of its own.

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3 w. ago US tariff: 'We don't really quite understand why it should be 20%'

By Susan Edmunds of RNZ US President Donald Trump's announcement of sweeping tariffs is not good news for New Zealand, but there is still a lot of detail to work through, commentators say.

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3 w. ago 'It will have an impact on exports': Trump adds 10% tariff to NZ goods

US President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order on tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington. Photo: Reuters New Zealand exporters face hundreds of millions of dollars of tariffs on goods sent to the US as President Trump carried through with his trade charges.

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3 w. ago Call for PM to step in after Green MP receives death threats following Winston Peters' comments

Greens' leader Chlöe Swarbrick. Photos: RNZ NZ First leader Winston Peters. The Green Party is demanding the Prime Minister step in over statements made by Winston Peters, saying they have led to "immense" numbers of death threats against MP Benjamin Doyle.

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