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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2006
... Australian proposal to the group is for a $US5 billion cut in subsidies from America and a European economic Union cut in tariffs by 5 per cent. The participation rate of experienced workers has been highlighted by research showing that following the ...

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PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2006
... known as the G20 has called for the US to cut support from about $US 22 billion to around $US 12 billion and for average tariffs to be as high as 54 per cent although the US is unwilling to cut domestic support as much as the G20 would like.

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
... Chinese had not made a significant commitment to the kind of deal that Australia was proposing. Australia promises to reduce tariffs even further in areas such as the manufacturing of cars, textiles, clothing and footwear in exchange for access to the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2006
... struggle with the latest figures from the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries showing that, following the reduction in tariffs to 10 per cent from 15 per cent in January 2005, locally made light cars are now about $1,500 more expensive than their ...

Business urged to take advantage of Aust-Thai FTA

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2004
... country, was expected to be signed in July. Austrade's Chief Economist Tim Harcourt said more than half of Thailand's 5,000 tariffs would be eliminated when the agreement came into force, making Australian products and services more competitively priced. ...

WTO warns time running out

... governments kept focused and overcome thorny problems such as subsidies on agriculture by rich countries and the high tariffs on farm imports from developing nations - issues that divided WTO member states and left them unable to proceed at a meeting ...

Single economic market for Australia and New Zealand getting closer

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2004
... And they also united in vowing to work harder to get world trade talks back on track, focused on slashing agricultural tariffs and subsidies across the globe. CER has been operating for 21 years, with virtually no trade barriers except those based on ...

Backlash continues over free trade agreement

... country to the world's biggest and most important economy. Business groups rallied behind the agreement which will wipe out tariffs on 97 per cent of manufactured goods coming into the country almost immediately. But Opposition Leader Mark Latham slammed ...

US and Australia sign free trade agreement

... Zoellick described the deal, which requires congressional approval, as "the most significant immediate cut in industrial tariffs ever achieved in a US free trade agreement". Australia, the United States' 13th largest export market, buys more goods from ...

Morning Market Wrap: Dollar stronger today

... stronger today after reaching another six-year high overnight but dropping back when the US announced it would cut steel tariffs. At 0700 AEDT the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.7349/54 compared with yesterday's close of 0.7348/56. The local unit ...