ISDS Case Map
Australia
An inquiry into computer and television piracy could break the impasse threatening to delay the start of the free trade deal with the US.
Australia and the United States have missed a key deadline for their free trade agreement but Australian Trade Minister Mark Vaile remains confident the deal will start as planned on January 1.
T Shinawatra Thai Silk (Thailand) Co Ltd, a family business of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, is negotiating with an Australian fashion designer to form a joint venture that benefits from low import tariffs under the Thai-Australia free-trade agreement.
The United States ambassador to Australia has left for Washington in a final bid to work through details holding up the free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries.
Australian Trade Minister Mark Vaile said negotiating an FTA with China would be "arguably more important" than the Australia-US free trade deal recently concluded and due to come into operation on January 1.
The United States' continuing concern about Australian laws is threatening to delay the countries' free-trade agreement.
Prime Minister John Howard may bow to a concerted campaign by American drug companies against the amendments that the government was forced into accepting upon pressure from the Labor Party.
Australian grain growers, who stood to gain billions of dollars in new trade targeting the Chinese food and livestock sectors, are demanding that the federal government fast track a free trade deal with China.
HIDDEN at the back of the 1000 page Australia-US Free Trade
Agreement, is a strange article, numbered 21.2(c). Usually,
in a legal document such as a treaty, dispute proceedings
only arise if a party has breached a formal obligation in the text.
Synoptic review of what is happening with US trade talks on agriculture, outside the WTO
