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...
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A Brief History On the reasons for Anti-Dumping Regimes
Few under stand the origins of antidumping and why it has been enshrined as one of the WTO Agreements.
What is anti-dumping? Very simply it is where an exporter sells product into an export market at a price less than that it sells the same or similar product into its domestic market. The difference is the...
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Labor’s Proposed $1 Billion Australian Manufacturing Fund – Throwing Stones in Glass Houses
Labor’s Bill Shorten and Kim Carr have promised a $1 advanced billion manufacturing fund, a so-called Australian Manufacturing Fund, to back Australian manufacturers if it wins the next election. Ostensibly this is to assist Australian manufacturing industries having difficulty obtaining finance from traditional resources such as banks.
However, what are implications of such a fund...
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