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Kōrero: Overseas trade policy

Two-faced policy

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Two-faced policy

This 1971 cartoon exposes New Zealand’s contradictory trade policy stance. New Zealand wanted protection of its export quota to the UK, but was critical of the US reducing its quota for New Zealand lamb. This two-faced policy only ended in the early 1980s.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: B-134-106

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/21983/two-faced-policy (accessed 4 June 2026).

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