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Kōrero: 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

Reference: B-133-611

by Nevile Lodge

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Chris Nixon rāua ko John Yeabsley, Overseas trade policy – New Zealand, Britain and the EEC, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/cartoon/21982/eek-its-the-eec (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Chris Nixon rāua ko John Yeabsley, i tāngia i te 12 April 2010.