New Zealand business wait with bated breath to find out who will become president in the US. 

It currently seems that Trump will take the win. He has promised big tariffs on goods from overseas.  

Former Trade Minister and former NZ ambassador to the US Tim Groser tells Heather du Plessis-Allan the Democratic party’s cardinal mistake was fronting a candidate that was “never going to succeed in presenting herself as a candidate for change”. 

Groser says Trump will try to move ahead with tariffs quickly, but there are problems he will be completely unaware of – like the pass-on effect of cost to American consumers. 

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