Hey Warren, you forgot me! “On the other side you’ve got Tim Wilson, you’ve got the Prime Minister, Attorney-General..theaustralian.com.au/business/legal…HY
“There is one rule for the Americans, one for the Asians. It is the wrong signal” (on FDI)::theaustralian.com.au/business/in-de…
FTA math: In proposed AU-JPN FTA ‘free’ = 19 percent (beef duties). ‘Free’= 0 (beef) in AUSFTA (2004) only in 2023 ::theaustralian.com.au/national-affai…
Japan digs-in on beef, dairy in AU-JPN FTA. Why this bellwether for #TPP? To make sure the US doesn’t get in first? theaustralian.com.au/national-affai…
CISOZ Don’t blame foreigners for rising house prices - Shoddy tax laws, not Chinese investors, are driving up the prices… ht.ly/2ERxl2
Quis custodies custoidet, custodietur (et cetera…) online.wsj.com/news/articles/…
No panel composed in 18 months. This case is phony. RT @WorldTradeLaw: Australia - Plain Packaging - Panel Request::bit.ly/1luhCNW
kw_watson EU drops tariffs on imports from Ukraine bit.ly/1luPZ7v US should follow suit: bitly.com/1g1ZsxT #AntiSanctions
WorldBank The private sector is now the source of 90% of #job creation in developing countries: wrld.bg/umLd4
How we made a ‘Qantas of the Internet’ (No, worse! It doesn’t fly). A brief, accurate retelling of the NBN disaster::aei-ideas.org/2014/03/austra…
“What comes next is the 19th century”. In trade, too? Given their scale, would #TPP + #TPIP reset the bar of MFN? ::theatlantic.com/international/…
Most FTA gains (so far) due to own-liberalization. Do huge CHN gains hang on finding partners with reciprocal scale?:voxeu.org/article/china-…
@dikenson gives 8 persuasive reasons to drop ISDS from FTAs::cato.org/publications/f…
Abbott making a mess of this. Tying QF equity up in obscure ‘national-interest’ conditions just cuts the price::theaustralian.com.au/business/aviat…
Armies are for defence; ideological battles for demagogues. 40 Australians died in Afghanistan for no security gain::theaustralian.com.au/national-affai…