Tag: FTA

Minister for Trade Simon Crean re-entered formal free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations with China in mid-June, the 11th round since talks began in 2005 and the first since the Rudd government came to power. “Negotiations will continue to be challenging as this is China’s first FTA with a country that has trade interests across the […]

Ian Murray, executive director of the Australian Institute of Export, takes stock of international trade under the Coalition, and looks at the possible changes to export under Federal Labor. After 11 years of Coalition control our trade agenda has moved to new hands. In its time at the helm tradition was maintained with three Nationals […]