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  • 21 May 2024
    • China
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Free Trade
    • Trade
    • Sustainability
    • United States

    Whether EVs or solar panels, protectionism has the same distorting effect

    John Edwards
    Biden is playing election politics with tariffs on China’s electric cars, while Albanese’s solar subsidy plans might end up costing Australia.
  • 4 Apr 2024
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Free Trade
    • Trade
    • International Public Opinion
    • Public Opinion Polling

    Economic diplomacy: Hanging on in ASEAN

    Greg Earl
    Australia faces growing competition for influence among its old friends in Southeast Asia as China’s power rises.
  • 18 Mar 2024
    • India
    • India's Economy
    • United Kingdom
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Free Trade
    • Trade
    • Migration

    Reverse colonialism? India and Britain’s free trade agreements

    Aarti Betigeri
    The failure of FTA talks between New Delhi and London rings with an unmistakable tone of irony.
  • 18 Jan 2024
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australia's Trade
    • Australia-United States Relations
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Free Trade
    • Trade
    • WTO

    Economic diplomacy: To market, to market, with China

    Greg Earl
    New Cabinet papers reveal the origins of trade pragmatism and the Coalition’s embrace of communism with market characteristics.
  • 26 Jul 2023
    • China
    • China's Economy
    • Global Economy
    • Free Trade
    • Geo-economics
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • United States
    • US Economy

    A return to old-school mercantilism?

    Ved Shinde
    Suspicion and economic competition are forcing states back in time, with protectionism and self-sufficiency the new norm.
  • 2 May 2023
    • Asia
    • South Korea
    • Australia
    • Free Trade
    • Global Issues

    Choosing openness in the international economy

    Andrew Leigh
    As the region seeks to rebound from a global economic downturn, the free flow of goods and services is key.
  • 10 Oct 2022
    • Australia's Trade
    • European Union
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Free Trade
    • Trade

    EU in the driver’s seat on Indo-Pacific trade deals

    Justin Brown
    Is the New Zealand–European Union free trade agreement an omen for Australia’s negotiations?
  • 25 Jul 2022
    • India's Economy
    • India
    • Free Trade

    India’s trade policy needs to prioritise the region

    Amita Batra
    New Delhi’s economic integration with Asian neighbours will enhance global value chains and ensure its trade resilience.
  • 24 Jun 2021
    • Trade
    • Free Trade
    • Australia
    • United Kingdom

    Australia sweeps the table in the UK trade deal

    Dmitry Grozoubinski
    Tariff elimination on this scale through a free trade agreement is almost unprecedented.
  • 7 Jul 2020
    • China's Economy
    • Free Trade
    • China
    • Hong Kong

    The economics of national security in Hong Kong

    Imogen T. Liu
    China’s new Hong Kong legislation shows how national security has become a part of the state’s economic arsenal.
  • 14 Apr 2020
    • Free Trade
    • Coronavirus

    Trading our way out of the Covid-19 lockdown

    June Ma , Rohan Pitchford , Rabee Tourky
    Protectionism, either within or between countries, is a sure way of achieving a prolonged recession.
  • 5 Dec 2019
    • China-Australia Relations
    • Australia's Trade
    • Free Trade
    • WTO

    Economic diplomacy: Free trade disputes, WTO appeals, DFAT on China

    Greg Earl
    A shortage of judges on the WTO trade court is bringing appeals to a halt, just as trade disputes are on the rise.
  • 7 Mar 2018
    • United States
    • Free Trade
    • Australia

    Multilateral trade versus self-interest

    Stephen Grenville
    Australia could chose an approach to minimise the political damage from failing to obtain an exemption to Trump’s tariffs.
  • 1 Sep 2017
    • Global Economy
    • Trade
    • Free Trade

    Free trade is being deferred but not reversed

    Alan Oxley
    This is something trade policy experts understand but many market analysts do not.

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