WELLINGTON (Reuters) - The trade war between U.S. and China and uncertainty around Brexit have created an unstable global environment for New Zealand exporters to operate in, the country's finance minister said on Tuesday.
"All this adds up to a global environment in which New Zealand exporters operate that is both unstable and uncertain," Grant Robertson said ahead of the May 30 budget speech.
Robertson said the International Monetary Fund has forecast growth for New Zealand at 2.5 percent this year and 2.9 percent in 2020.
He added that the government has identified NZ$1 billion ($658 million) of spending that is no longer priority or where funding previously allocated is no longer needed.
(Reporting by Charlotte Greenfield; Writing by Praveen Menon; Editing by Richard Borsuk)
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