Giant taming
Jul 18, 2021
3 minutes
his month, New Zealand’s trade balance returned to deficit for the first since June 2020, with strong household demand helping push spending back to pre-pandemic levels. But what’s in the shopping basket is sometimes shocking – just this week, New Zealanders learnt they’d imported a million tonnes of coal last year: a reported 235 kilograms of mostly low-grade, high-emissions coal for every New Zealander. And at the same time, the online global merchant
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