Posts tagged…Regional

Agriculture in the AUSFTA

Wed, Aug 26 2009

Over the fold, my presentation, this week, to the 2009 Fulbright Seminar in Canberra reflecting on the first 5 years experience of the liberalization of agriculture in the Australia-USA FTA.

The first few slides are charts of current data showing a surprisingly poor performance of Australian exports to the USA in the first five years of the implementation period of the free-trade area. The…

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Growth rate of regional trade agreements

Wed, Apr 08 2009

It is often said that the growth in the number of RTAs has been 'exponential'. Thanks to the WTO's database of RTAs it's now easy to keep tab of the trend. Here's what it looks like as of March 2009.

Asean-Australia-NZ Free Trade Agreement

Fri, Mar 13 2009

ASEAN accounts for just under 20 percent of Australia's trade ($81bn in 20087-8), so the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (AANZFTA) that has now been submitted to parliaments for ratification is potentially a big deal.

How big it is difficult to say from a quick review. This is an extensive agreement with a lot of details that will take careful evaluation. It is apparently the…

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Crocodile tears on regional free trade

Fri, Nov 18 2005

Back to the future: an Australia-Japan FTA

Sun, Oct 02 2005

Borders matter

Sat, Sep 17 2005