How a Joe Biden presidency is good for world trade relations

Post author By New Zealand Blog News Service
Post date November 8, 2020

An end to predictability, more rational policy and more engagement with the world are some of the things we should see under a Biden presidency, a former trade negotiator, diplomat and director of the New Zealand-United States Council says.

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