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WTO warns time running out

At a Geneva meeting of the WTO's 146 member states, including Australia, director-general Supachai Panitchpakdi welcomed a new willingness between delegates to discuss thorny topics such as farming but warned that time was running out. Last month, countries ...

Free trade deal goes public, but attacked over PBS

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2004
... and the US, lists every aspect of the trade deal that the two countries have spent 14 months negotiating. It lists every tariff Australia and the US will cut, commitments to review policy areas and provisions in areas such as labour and environmental ...

Single economic market for Australia and New Zealand getting closer

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2004
Australia and New Zealand yesterday committed themselves to quickening the pace towards a single economic market, but a single currency is still off the agenda. Prime ministers John Howard and Helen Clark said both countries were keen to see a single ...

Backlash continues over free trade agreement

Thousands of manufacturing jobs could be at risk under the trade deal signed between Australia and the United States, the ACTU has warned. Sugar farmers have already expressed outrage at the free trade agreement, which largely protects the price of ...

US and Australia sign free trade agreement

The United States and Australia have signed a trade agreement that officials say will eliminate duties from more than 99 per cent of American manufacturing exports to Australia. US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick described the deal, which requires ...

Morning Market Wrap: Dollar stronger today

The Australian dollar opened 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 ...

Australia looks for free trade deal with US; Thailand deal announced

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2003
Australian business is hoping US President George W Bush will commit to a free trade agreement between America and Australia when he addresses federal parliament on Thursday. "We will be looking to President Bush to signal that the final stages of the ...

Australia highlights support for ongoing APEC meeting

In a press release presented to the Financial Standard by the office of Alexander Downer, the minister for foreign affairs, Australia's support for APEC in the ongoing meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, was highlighted in this country's Individual Action ...

APEC will seek to exorcise the failures of WTO Cancun

... towards meeting these goals. Mr Militanchinda has said that most economies, during the forming of APEC in 1989, had average tariff rates of more than 10%, but now only three member countries have tariffs at that level. In the second category of APEC's ...

Australian trade gap widens due to stronger dollar, more imports: economists

Economists have said today that Australia's monthly trade gap is expected to have widened to at least $2 billion in June as the stronger Australian dollar is having a negative effect on trade, and imports have also risen. "In particular (exports) will ...