16 Apr 2025

Personal finance: The impact to New Zealand of changeable tariffs

From Nine To Noon, 11:45 am on 16 April 2025
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US President Donald Trump's changeable tariffs are providing a lot of market confusion.

But while farmers might be wondering what will happen to beef exports, and vineyards might be wondering how much of a tariff they can absorb to stop the consumer price rising, for some households there might be a more immediate impact.

Money correspondent Susan Edmunds joins Kathryn to discuss. Susan Edmunds is RNZ's Money Correspondent