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Australia is Asia's biggest investment market

SUZY MAC IS ON LEAVE  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2007
... we move into their playgrounds. The next step being deepening our relationship with India through a mooted Free Trade Agreement and leveraging this as they prepare to host the 2010 Commonwealth Games can only improve our positioning as we progress through ...

Aus and India in free trade talks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2007
... Australian and Indian government have signed a joint feasibility study to explore the potential benefits of a free trade agreement between the two countries. Preliminary results from the study found India has the fourth largest merchandise export market ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2006
... totalled $343 million during 2005-06, is expected to increase given the intention of both countries to examine a free trade agreement. As one of the largest exporters to the US from South America, Chile exports only about $139 million to Australia in ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2006
... expansionary nor contractionary. Australia's farmers have continued to lobby the Federal Government for a free trade agreement with China with exports to China increasing three-fold in the last decade, according to the National Farmers Federation (NFF). ...

Aust govt to support ALP amendments on FTA

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2004
The government will support Labor\'s amendments to the free trade agreement with the United States despite concerns about the impact of the changes, Prime Minister John Howard said today. \"The government has decided that the common sense thing to do ...

Labor to support FTA with US

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2004
The Labor Party will support the proposed free trade agreement with the United States after a crucial caucus meeting this morning voted in favour of the deal. Labor sources said two thirds of Labor parliamentarians supported the deal after ALP members ...

Aust federal politicians return to Canberra

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2004
... be their last two-week sitting before a federal election. The key issue will be Labor\'s position on the free trade agreement with the United States, with a bitter debate expected at today\'s caucus meeting over the issue. Labor members of a special ...

Labor to wait for Senate report on FTA deal: Latham

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2004
Labor would not announce its policy on the Australia-United States free trade agreement until the Senate released its report into the deal, federal Opposition Leader Mark Latham said today. Mr Latham, on the fourth day of his pre-election roadshow in ...

US Congress moves to approve free trade deal with Aust

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2004
Congress moved today to approve a free trade agreement with Australia. The US sees Australia as an important market for US manufactured goods and a strong ally in the war against terrorism that has \"been there when it counted most\". The House voted ...

Australian-Thai FTA signed

Thailand and Australia today signed a free trade agreement (FTA) with confidence growing it will deepened Australia\'s economic links with South East Asia. Prime ministers Thaksin Shinawatra and John Howard signed the deal, along with several other ...