Smellie Sniffs the Breeze on: NZ companies of the future

Smellie Sniffs the Breeze on: NZ companies of the future
India remains as uninterested in trade liberalisation as it ever has. (Image: Getty)
Pattrick Smellie
Trade minister Damien O’Connor could be forgiven for feeling a bit tired.Not only did he travel internationally more often and further than any other government politician during two and a half years of covid border closures, he’s back at it with a vengeance now that things are opening up.A bit over a week ago, he was in San Francisco for an inaugural chinwag about US President Joe Biden’s slightly amorphous Indo-Pacific Economic Forum (IPEF) – a proposed new grouping that is keen not to be known as a trade agreement.Thi...

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