Non-tariff barriers cost meat sector more than $1.5b a year

Herald business writer·NZ Herald·29 Oct, 2026 06:00 AM3 mins to read‌Silver Fern Farms' CEO Dan Boulton says tariffs and trade barriers are increasingly significant but the challenge is broader than tariffs. United States trade policy is the most obvious example of how fast trading conditions can change, but new tariffs aren’t the only geopolitical instability headache for export-dependent New Zealand, say meat industry leaders. Dan Boulton, chief executive of multinational Dunedin-based meat company Silver Fern Farms, says tariffs and trade barriers