Free trade dairy debacle with USA was inevitable
The Maritime Union of New Zealand says the collapse of free trade in dairy products going into the United States was predictable and inevitable.
Maritime Union General Secretary Trevor Hanson says New Zealand has been naive in allowing free trade ideology to replace common sense and had been “led by the nose” by a self-interested sector of business in New Zealand who put their own interests first.
He says that nations such as the United States would support free trade as long as it served their interests, then would abandon it when it no longer suited them, which is what had now happened.