Tariff Uncertainty Prompts NZ Agricultural Businesses to Look for New Markets

Tariff uncertainty prompts NZ agricultural businesses to look for new markets

New Zealand agriculture can no longer relay on its usual international customers.

Tariff uncertainty casts shadow over 2025 middle-market M&A expectations

The international trade war has thrown a wrench into mergers-and-acquisitions expectations.

Optimism among SMEs drops back following uncertainty surrounding tariffs

Record high levels of optimism amongst Irish small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) have dropped back to more average levels as the turmoil of US tariff announcements drives more uncertainty, according to a new business confidence survey by Linked Finance. Business optimism amongst all SMEs was 67% at the end of Q4 2024, but this has fallen back to a more average 62%, for Q1 2025. While there has been no “cliff edge” fall in business activitie…

NZ ‘sitting tight’ on 10% US tariff

Reading Time: 2 minutes New Zealand is keeping a watchful eye on the United States to see if it reduces its new 10% baseline tariff with any other country. If it does, NZ wants to be next in line for negotiating a reduction, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s deputy secretary for trade and economics Vangelis Vitalis said at the DairyNZ Farmers Forum in Hamilton. “At the moment the message from the US is that the 10% tariff is fixed, no one …