The future of USA-Australian trade

Donald Trump’s tariffs have rocked world markets but a more measured assessment of their impact on Australia-US trade relations should be informed by history and morality as well as dollars and cents.

Avoiding a world trade war

The threat of a world trade war is putting the global economic system at risk, and Europe and East Asia must agree collective action to preserve an open, rules-based trading system.

Securing Australia’s interests in a Trumpian trade world

Australia must adopt a sophisticated and multi-layered strategy to engage the second Trump administration on trade and security.

The collapse of the global trade-order

The rising use of economic coercion is a symptom of an increasingly unstable world that is struggling to contain rise of China and is no longer bound by the norms and institutions established after World War II.

Australia’s opportunity in regional trade

Australia has joined 14 other states in The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, tapping into 2.2 billion consumers and 30 percent of the world’s GDP.

Reforming Australia’s foreign trade system

The government’s multi-year program to simplify its international trade regulations, streamline its regulatory processes and modernise outdated computer systems still have some way to go.

Resilience and Australia’s trading system

As Australia seeks to diversify its economy, build more resilience into supply chains and improve productivity, reducing the transaction costs of both exporting and importing must be high on all governments’ policy agendas.

Australia in the global economy

Remaining open to international trade will help Australia mitigate the looming threat of recession and reboot economic growth.

Australia 1 China 0

It’s too soon to declare an end to China’s economic war against Australia, but the signs are all pointing in that direction, with the meeting between trade ministers of the two countries this week coinciding with the first shipments of Australian coal to China in two years.

Standing up to China on trade

Trade policy is inseparable from strategy and security, and Australia must resist China’s attempts to use trade to ­coerce Australia over sovereign decisions it made in other realms.

New ports of call for Australian goods

China’s share of Australia’s trade is falling and being replaced by other trading partners in Asia, bringing important diversification to Australian markets.

Opening Australia’s trade window

Trade-related regulatory requirements are administered and enforced by more than 30 agencies at the federal level in Australia, as well as some at the state and territory level, with little coordination between them.