It’s a year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic and the long-term and substantial realignments in global supply chains are starting to become more obvious. COVID exposed more...
Trade
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Labor, the Greens and Independent senator Rex Patrick have called for more enforceable conditions on some of the trillions of dollars in foreign investment in Australia, warning overseas companies...
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Australia has a multi-billion-dollar export opportunity to move up the supply chain of the critical minerals it exports by refining the materials used in computer components, renewable technologies and...
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COLUMN: As the reality of potential ‘carbon tariffs’ hit the Australian Government, the big question is what we can export in future to maintain economic growth. The Minister for...
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Australian tech companies which receive any funding from overseas defence or national security agencies will be subject to the new national security test under new reforms which risk “strangling”...
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Australia’s policy makers should make a strategic investment in leading edge science to grow future industries, according to a global trade expert, who warns it is difficult to compete...
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Australia is in active discussions with the US to sign a regional digital trade agreement in an effort to re-engage America in the Indo-Pacific region and boost the local...
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The federal government will pay American multinational Boston Consulting Group $125,000 a week to produce reports on Australia’s supply chain resilience around semiconductors and telecommunications equipment over the next...
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Electronics manufacturers such as Entech Electronics have had to beef up their supply chain and purchasing teams to meet the challenges of a global shortage of electronic components. Yaser...
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Australia has been urged to join the US in fully supporting the scrapping of IP rules around COVID-19 vaccines to assist developing nations’ immunisation efforts, with the federal government...
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Not every foreign business in China need fear the cold winds of data regulation, but multinationals that capitalise on the PRC’s vast market and R&D capacity can expect to...
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Australia’s ambassador to the United States Arthur Sinodinos has revealed a dialogue has begun with the Biden Administration aimed at securing a digital economy trade agreement along the same...
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As the US economy roars back into rude health, there are huge opportunities for local innovators to benefit from the COVID re-alignment of global supply chains, according to Australia’s...
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The federal government has gone to the market for a tech provider to develop a new foreign investment IT platform to replace the existing system, which has “not kept...