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New Zealand's buoyant exporters: New Zealand's exporters prove once again that they'...

Publication: NZ Business
Date: Wednesday, December 1 2004

When the DHL Export Barometer Survey results were released last October, many commentators were quietly surprised by the high level of confidence and resilience demonstrated by the country's exporters. There has been a degree of "bullishness" about the whole export sector, which flies in the face of the high exchange rate, added security measures, and the impending increase in freight and fuel charges.

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This optimism was expressed in the figures from the survey (which tracks export trends). Seventy percent of the 314 exporters surveyed

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