Free-trade deadlock

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Australia and the US will have to negotiate a free-trade agreement because of elections scheduled in both the countries towards the end of the year 2004 as the shortage of skilled people who will retire by the year 2009 is worrying analysts in the manufacturing industry. The tourism industry in Australia has been granted extra funding by the government because of an increase in the number of arrivals during the year 2003.

United States, Government expenditures, HOTELS AND OTHER LODGING PLACES, Tourist Travel, Negotiation, mediation and arbitration, Travel industry, Commercial treaties, Trade agreements, Tourism, Government finance

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The trade implications

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Australia's possible involvement in the coming Iraq conflict will have serious consequences on its trade with the Middle East and Asia, as countries sympathetic to Iraq may be reluctant to trade with Australia. Losing the Middle East market would be a blow to the agricultural and automobile industries.

Iraq, Agricultural industry, Economic aspects, Cover Story, Automobile industry, Military aspects, Wars, War, War economy

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Caught in a trade squeeze

Article Abstract:

Issues concerning Australia's economic aspirations in the free-trade markets of Europe, Asia and North America are discussed. Issues concerning subsidies for agriculture are also analysed.

Free trade

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