Imports matter too

Imports matter too
Christopher Luxon and Miles Hurrell at a grass-fed dairy event. (Image: Dileepa Fonseka/BusinessDesk)
Dileepa Fonseka
"What did Daddy bring us back from China?” a New Zealander quipped to me when I asked what questions Prime Minister Christopher Luxon would likely face when he returned home. And what exactly do New Zealanders hope Luxon is carting around in his luggage now that he has left China and moved on to Europe? They probably hope it's a bag full of papers rather than goodies: deals reached long before the PM's plane hit the ground, Memoranda of Understanding that are hard to understand, and a stack of purchase orders for NZ...

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