Kōrero: Employer and business organisations

Resisting reforms (1 o 2)

Resisting reforms

The 1980s and 1990s, when import licensing ended and tariffs were cut, were a difficult time for many manufacturing businesses. Manufacturers’ resistance was short-lived but vehement. This is the first page of a 1990 pamphlet, in which the Manufacturers’ Federation asked if further tariff cuts were based on ‘blind dogma or … some known factual basis’, and contrasted consumers’ gains from tariff cuts with the possibility of unemployment.

Image courtesy of Business NZ

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: Eph-B-MANUFACTURING-1990-01-front

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Megan Cook, 'Employer and business organisations - The Manufacturers’ Federation', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/ephemera/24720/resisting-reforms (accessed 29 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Megan Cook, i tāngia i te 11 Mar 2010