“The Government has implemented reforms to Australia’s anti-dumping system aimed at ensuring Australian manufacturers and producers are able to compete on a level playing field with imported goods.”

Labor has announced that, if it were in government, it would require the Productivity Commission to assess 10 years after a preferential trade agreement (i.e. free trade agreement) was entered into by Australia whether that preferential trade agreement was actually economically beneficial to Australia. After all that is the rational for entering into such agreements, that is that they are in Australia’s interest.