According to Tony Kelly, Senior Economist at NAB, trade tensions have been on the rise recently and a worrying cycle of retaliation and counter”‘retaliation is emerging.
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“Measures currently being threatened would have some impact on the global economy, it would likely be manageable.”
“However, if their implementation kicked off a further and more widespread cycle of retaliation it has the potential to lead to a more sizable shock to global growth, which would also impact on Australia.”