ISDS Case Map
Australia
Indonesia is preparing massive financial and technical support for meat and tropical fruit businesses in a bid to cash in on ASEAN's free trade deals with Australia and New Zealand.
The new ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement falls well short of what could be considered a good deal for Australian industry, according to the Shadow Minister for Trade, Warren Truss.
What right does the Australian government have to impose a free trade agreement on the peoples of ASEAN, without any sort of systems in place to represent their views or interests (rather than the views or interests of their rulers) in negotiations? And how many Australians want a free trade agreement with vicious, murderous regimes like Burma's military junta anyway?
Australia's red meat and live cattle export trade to South-East Asia received a boost last week, with the signing of a new trade deal.
Australia's beef industry will be the big winner if free trade talks between the Government and South Korea are successful.
Normally the services chapter of an FTA covers movement of persons from one country to another in order to supply a service. This FTA is unusual because it contains both a chapter on trade in services and a separate chapter, and accompanying schedule of commitments, in respect of the movement of natural persons.
South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak Lee will announce the start of formal negotiations towards a free trade agreement with Australia in Canberra on Thursday.
A new 12-member free trade agreement between New Zealand, Australia and the 10 ASEAN countries has not got everybody's stamp of approval. The agreement has been welcomed by groups such as Federated Farmers of New Zealand. However, Auckland University law professor Jane Kelsey says negative aspects of the agreement are being ignored.
Australia and New Zealand have signed a free trade agreement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) -- one of Asia's largest trade arrangements.
