Prime Minister Julia Gillard and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso discussed plans for strengthened cooperation between Australia and the European Union during bilateral talks in Canberra this week.
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced a new trade policy for Australia, which will demand significant economic reform. Provisions include the abandonment of “low-quality” bilateral trade deals in favour of comprehensive multilateral free trade agreements.
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China and the USA have concluded trade talks over a number of commercial disputes that have threatened to sour their bilateral relationship before US President Barack Obama’s visit to China scheduled for November 15. US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke called the recent US-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade “productive” and said it “builds a [...]
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Australia’s relationship with China has to be realistic considering it’s between a democracy and a communist nation, said Minister for Foreign Affairs Stephen Smith last night in an address to the Australian National University’s China Institute. “Australia is clear-eyed, not starry-eyed, in its assessment of China and its view of the bilateral relationship,” he said. [...]
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Australian Minister for Trade Simon Crean and Mexican Secretary for the Economy and Trade Gerardo Ruiz Mateos met last week upon finalising the report of the Australia-Mexico Joint Experts Group on Strengthening Bilateral Economic Relations. Bilateral trade passed $2 billion last year and the two ministers identified areas where the two economies could work together, [...]
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China needs to process the four Rio Tinto employees arrested earlier this month “expeditiously”, urged Australian Minister for Trade Simon Crean, to avoid the situation affecting trade and investment decisions. Crean said he believes that if the cases were handled properly there would be no trade ramifications in Australia’s bilateral relationship with China, but at [...]
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Minister for Trade Simon Crean will visit Singapore and Vietnam this week for a series of high-level meetings that will address regional issues and Australia’s trade and economic interests. In Singapore, Mr Crean will attend the APEC Meeting of Ministers Responsible for Trade, which he says will boost political energy going into the next Doha [...]
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The Rio Tinto arrests will not threaten bilateral trade between Australia and China, but it may cause Australian companies to think twice about Chinese investors, believes Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett. Barnett will travel to China next week on a state visit, a trip that will include a meeting with Han Zheng, mayor of Shanghai, [...]
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Brazil and China will bypass the US dollar in their bilateral export deals if a new currency arrangement comes through, according to their respective central banks. China’s Central Bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan and Brazil’s Central Bank President Henrique Meirelles addressed the deal when they met at the Bank for International Settlement’s annual general meeting in [...]
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Australian and British business leaders met in London last week to discuss ways of maximising the strong relationship between the two nations and develop new commercial connections. Austrade’s UK senior trade commissioner Kylie Hargreaves said the CPA Australia CEO Forum provided a whole-of-government platform to engage UK and Australian industry leaders. The forum was part [...]
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