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Story: Overseas trade policy

EEK! it’s the EEC

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EEK! it’s the EEC

This 1967 cartoon plays on possible meanings for the acronym EEC (European Economic Community). What the EEC meant for New Zealand was loss of trade access to Britain, its traditional market for agricultural exports.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

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Chris Nixon and John Yeabsley, Overseas trade policy – New Zealand, Britain and the EEC, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/cartoon/21982/eek-its-the-eec (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Chris Nixon and John Yeabsley, published 12 April 2010.