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Realising the trade and investment potential between Thailand and Australia
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Trade experts are recommending that Australia’s ties with Thailand need to be refreshed in the light of the changing trade and political landscape in South-East Asia.
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Significant losses in Australia-China trade call for resilience
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Australia-China relations have deteriorated sharply in the last three years, most visibly because of China’s formal and informal bans on some important Australian commodity exports which have caused significant losses.
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Should Australia join the emerging club of carbon trading nations?
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Australia’s exports risk being hit with environmental charges if it doesn’t move quickly in the face of trade mechanisms being considered by climate-progressive nations as they seek to prevent the leakage of jobs and investment to climate laggard nations.
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