Political problems confronting New Zealand as an exporter of temperate agricultural products : a study of New Zealand meat exports to the United States 1972-83

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Political Science
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Master of Arts
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English
Date
1985
Authors
Steel, Mark John
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This thesis considers the way in which reliance on exports of temperate agricultural commodities presents distinctive difficulties to the successful pursuit of New Zealand's interests in the world and the way these difficulties are related to New Zealand's trade oriented economy and status as a small or 'weak' state. It outlines the political policies that have governed agriculture in New Zealand's major markets, which constitute the phenomenon of agricultural protectionism. Specific description and analysis is undertaken of New Zealand's exports of beef and lamb to the United States since 1972. Agricultural protectionist policies in the United States possess some features peculiar to that country, but are in general, typical of those adopted in the major industrialised countries, being if anything more liberal than their counterparts elsewhere. The status and development of these policies in the period since 1972 is examined. Focus on New Zealand meat exports to the United States is particularly appropriate in the light of the prime importance of the U.S. market to those exports. Consideration is also undertaken of the reaction of New Zealand to legislative developments in this area and attempts by New Zealand to influence the formulation of meat import policy in the United States. The significance of the broader political relationship between New Zealand and the United States for access for exports of temperate agricultural products is also assessed.

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Meat industry and trade--New Zealand, Protectionism--United States, New Zealand--Commerce--United States, United States--Commerce--New Zealand
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