Items Tagged With "Trade"
Closer business ties with Italy (News)
Discussions include the importance of enhanced collaboration between Australia and Italy on infrastructure opportunities, and how to develop Italian equity in the Australian resources sector.
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Australian Parliamentary Secretary for Trade, Anthony Byrne, welcomed a visit by a high level Italian business delegation this week as an indication of the ongoing strength of the relationship between the two nations.
Mr Byrne said the visit was the next step in a strategy to develop closer trade and investment links between Australia and Italy.
More seats on routes to China (News)
More flights, greater competition and lower fares on routes between Australia and China are now possible following the signing of a new air services agreement.
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More flights, greater competition and lower fares on routes between Australia and China are now possible following the signing of a new air services agreement.
Finalised in time for today’s Chinese New Year, the new arrangements will increase the available seats on routes between our two countries by 70 per cent by the end of this year.
More seats to the Middle East (News)
Australia and the United Arab Emirates have settled a new air services agreement, opening the way for new international flights into Australia’s regional airports.
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Australia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have settled a new air services agreement, opening the way for new international flights into Australia’s regional airports.
Under the new arrangements, airlines such as Emirates and Etihad will be able to operate up to an additional seven services a week into Australia’s major gateway airports (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth), provided these services go via a regional centre such as Cairns, Darwin or Adelaide.
Landmark Islamic finance publication (News)
The Government’s first-ever publication on Islamic finance provides a detailed explanation of the opportunities that booming Shariah-compliant investment and banking offers Australia’s financial services sector.
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Trade Minister Simon Crean today launched the Australian Government’s first-ever comprehensive publication on Islamic finance.
The booklet Islamic Finance provides a detailed explanation of the opportunities that booming Shariah-compliant investment and banking offers Australia’s financial services sector.
Australia is well positioned to service almost 1 billion Muslims who live in the Asia-Pacific region and to tap into petrodollar liquidity.
Strengthening the Australia-Africa Partnership (News)
The renewed three-year partnership with South Africa will focus on the priority areas of climate change adaptation in the agriculture sector and greenhouse emissions reporting and monitoring.
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Trade Minister Simon Crean today signed a letter of intent with South Africa’s Minister for Water and Environmental Affairs, Buyelwa Sonjica to renew the Australia-South Africa climate change partnership.
The renewed three-year partnership will focus on joint activities including in the priority areas of climate change adaptation in the agriculture sector and greenhouse emissions reporting and monitoring.
Visit to South Africa (News)
The visit included a wide ranging exchange of views on bilateral trade and investment and education links, as well as cooperation in the WTO, the G20, on non-proliferation and disarmament, climate change, peace building and peacekeeping in Africa, and the United Nations.
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Yesterday and today I conducted the first visit to South Africa by an Australian Foreign Minister in more than seven years.
Today I met my South African counterpart Foreign Minister Nkoana-Mashabane. We had previously met for the first time in the margins of CHOGM in November 2009.
Push for trade in Europe and Africa (News)
With early signs of stabilisation in the world economy, a coordinated global and regional response remains vital - and promoting international trade is a critical part of that response.
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Trade Minister Simon Crean leaves today for a trip to the United Kingdom, Switzerland and South Africa to advocate for Australian trade and strategic interests at a time when there are growing signs the world economy is emerging from recession.
Mr Crean will be the Australian Government representative at Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum. At the forum he will speak on the importance of concluding the Doha Round, the Government's initiative of an Asia-Pacific Community and strengthening the global economic system.
Australia gains access to EU beef quota (News)
The increased market access for Australian beef provides a considerable opportunity for our beef industry to develop its presence in the European Union market with a particular focus on high quality product.
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* Release by Simon Crean & Tony Burke
Minister for Trade Simon Crean and Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Tony Burke are pleased to announce that the European Union has granted Australia market access to its new EU Tariff Quota for high quality beef.
The duty-free quota, which first became available in August last year, provides for an additional global supply of 20,000 tonnes of high quality beef into the EU each year.
Australia as a financial services hub (News)
The visit to Hong Kong is a timely opportunity to highlight the strengths of Australia's financial sector to Asia-Pacific market participants.
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The Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law, Chris Bowen MP, today leaves for Hong Kong to advance Australia's standing as a financial services hub and as well as strengthen trading relationships within the region.
The visit follows the release of the Australian Financial Centre Forum's Report, Australia as a Financial Centre: Building on our Strengths (the Johnson Report), which makes a number of recommendations to promote Australia as a financial services centre.
Value of Australian exports up 22.6% (News)
Strong commodity prices, demand from China and Australia's diversified trade base were factors in the resilient performance of the nation's exporters in the face of the global economic crisis.
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New trade figures show that almost all of Australia's states and territories increased the value of their exports despite the impact of the global downturn, Trade Minister Simon Crean said.
Last financial year the value of Australian exports rose 22.6 per cent to $283.8 billion from $231.5 billion in 2007-08 and today the government is releasing a comprehensive breakdown of how the states and territories performed.
