There was little this country could do to dodge the latest  tariff - this from a former trade minister

Donald Trump's raising tariffs on New Zealand goods to 15 percent, while keeping tariffs on Australian and British goods at 10-percent.

Tim Groser has dealt with the US extensively -- as our trade minister during the Barack Obama administration, and ambassador to the US during the first Trump administration.

He told Mike Hosking current trade minister Todd McClay couldn't have prevented this, even if he'd camped outside the White House.

Groser says our tariff rate rose, because New Zealand exports more goods to the US, than we import from the US.

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