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		<title>Free Trade ? Same Item &#8211; China Imposes 30% Import Duty, Australia Just 5%</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/free-trade-same-item-china-imposes-30-import-duty-australia-just-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 02:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agmate Andrew Moyle Colonial Leather at Bendigo Vic writes from China:
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As for Tariffs, I have campaigned long and hard, met with members of parliament and ministers in the early days but discovered fairly quickly the futile nature of such efforts.


I own and run a factory in Bendigo that manufactures leather goods.  Our main products [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picked Off By A Deadly Sniper &#8211;  One Australian Agriculture Industry at a Time.</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/picked-off-by-a-deadly-sniper-one-australian-agriculture-industry-at-a-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agmates.com/blog/?p=4463</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Free Trade is the deadly sniper that is methodically killing off Australian agriculture industries just as it has our manufacturing industry.


You the reader like most people probably think that&#8217;s an outrageous statement. It goes against everything we have been told for the last 30 years. The media, our politicians (Liberal, Labor &#38; National Party) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kevin Rudd And Labor Destroying Jobs In Rural Australia With New Export Tax</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/kevin-rudd-and-labor-destroying-jobs-in-rural-australia-with-new-export-tax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his Labor team have once again plucked the Goose that lays the golden egg &#8211; Australian Agriculture.
Labors urban boy wonder, Agriculture Minister Tony Burke announced increases in AQIS fees and full industry cost recovery that amounts to a massive tax increase of up to 1,300% on the nations rural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA Pumps Billions Into Rural &amp; Regional Communities</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/usa-pumps-billions-into-rural-regional-communities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agmates.com/blog/usa-pumps-billions-into-rural-regional-communities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The USA is pumping Billions directly into its farm sector in an effort to jump start rural &#38; regional communities economy.

WASHINGTON, March 9, 2009 &#8211; Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced USDA will be delivering its first actions implementing the AU$43 billion provided in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act).

Just have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South American Beef Anyone?</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/south-american-beef-anyone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agmates.com/blog/?p=4097</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Australian Agriculture minister Tony Burke and Trade Minister Simon Crean have taken great pride in announcing the following Free Trade initiatives this week.

Thrown open the doors to a flood of cheap imports from the 10 ASEAN nations. this will see hordes of low cost, low regulated produce and fruit replace Australian produce on Supermarket shelves.


Thrown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What a Week For The Free Traders</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/what-a-week-for-the-free-traders/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agmates.com/blog/what-a-week-for-the-free-traders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agmates.com/blog/?p=4090</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What a week it&#8217;s been for the rabid supporters of Free Trade. Amazing how all of this has been announced the week that the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Pascal Lamy is here in Australia.

Saturday 28th February &#8211; ASEAN Free Trade Agreement Signed &#8211; Australia completely Opens its doors to imports from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Trade A Mythological Dream for Governments &#8211; A Nightmare for Farmers</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/free-trade-a-mythological-dream-for-governments-a-nightmare-for-farmers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agmates.com/blog/free-trade-a-mythological-dream-for-governments-a-nightmare-for-farmers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agmates.com/blog/?p=4017</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Incompetent politicians on both sides of the Tasman have bargained away our Agriculture industries in their rush to embrace global free trade.
ABC&#8217;s Lateline host Tony Jone&#8217;s interview with World Trade Organization Director General Pascal Lamy [pictured below] exposed the outrageous fraud that Free Trade policies have imposed on Australian and New Zealand farmers.
TONY JONES: What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simon Crean Asean Free Trade Agreement Opens Australia Up to a Flood of Cheap Imports</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/simon-crean-asean-free-trade-agreement-opens-australia-up-to-a-flood-of-cheap-imports/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agmates.com/blog/simon-crean-asean-free-trade-agreement-opens-australia-up-to-a-flood-of-cheap-imports/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agmates.com/blog/?p=3937</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Australia&#8217;s trade minister Simon Crean is crowing about the new Free trade deal he has just signed Australia up to.
AUSTRALIA will open its markets completely to imports from the 10 ASEAN countries, but will not get full access to their markets under a free trade agreement signed in Thailand last night.
Under a deal Trade Minister [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia The Stupidest Nation On Earth #4 &#8211; I&#8217;m Feeling Like Winston Churchill</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/australia-the-stupidest-nation-on-earth-4-im-feeling-like-winston-churchill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agmates.com/blog/australia-the-stupidest-nation-on-earth-4-im-feeling-like-winston-churchill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agmates editor Steve Truman writes:
I&#8217;m feeling like Winston Churchill must have felt when Neville Chamberlain was British PM and his and the governments policy of the day was to avoid war by appeasing Adolf Hitler.
I keep banging on about the importance of food security whilst our governments and peak farm organizations over the last 3 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Hope You Love Eating Chinese</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/we-hope-you-love-eating-chinese/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agmates.com/blog/we-hope-you-love-eating-chinese/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese food imports into Australia have exploded in the last 3 years.
Mega tonnages of Chinese produce have flooded Australian shores in the past six months, nudging Australian farmers off local supermarket shelves and raising fresh concerns about food safety.
For example &#8211; in just the last six months we have imported:
250 tonnes of fresh or chilled [...]]]></description>
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