ISDS Case Map
Australia
Visiting Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer expressed hope that Canberra could enter into official negotiations on a free trade agreement with Japan next year by concluding the ongoing feasibility study at an early date, Japanese officials said.
A free trade deal between Australia and Japan could be a multi-billion dollar bonanza for both countries, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has suggested.
Economic relations between Malaysia and Australia are set to enter a new era when the two countries conclude a free trade agreement (FTA).
The head of the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra says there has been an attempt to silence academics who are making critical comments about issues of public importance.
The Doha round of world trade talks may have collapsed in Geneva last week -- denying the world's developing countries their promised access to global markets -- but leading trade expert Jagdish Bhagwati remains optimistic about the cause of multilateral trade liberalisation.
The head of Australia's biggest steel maker, BlueScope Steel, has questioned the value of a free-trade deal with China and urged the Federal Government to even up tariffs on steel traded between the countries.
A feasibility study examining a possible free trade deal between Australia and Japan will be finished by December, possibly allowing negotiations to begin in early 2007, the trade minister said Frida
An agreement to liberalise trade of goods and services between Malaysia and Australia will help attract more Australian firms to invest in and trade with Malaysia.
The safety of the Australian blood supply could be jeopardised under the free trade agreement with the United States, researchers have warned.
No other country today appears to be more important in Australia's diplomatic and political calculations than China, at least for commercial purposes.
