Tag Archives: Free Trade
Free Trade ? Same Item – China Imposes 30% Import Duty, Australia Just 5%
Agmate Andrew Moyle Colonial Leather at Bendigo Vic writes from China: . As for Tariffs, I have campaigned long and hard, met with members of parliament and ministers in the… Read more
Picked Off By A Deadly Sniper – One Australian Agriculture Industry at a Time.
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’s… Read more
Kevin Rudd And Labor Destroying Jobs In Rural Australia With New Export Tax
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his Labor team have once again plucked the Goose that lays the golden egg – Australian Agriculture. Labors urban boy wonder, Agriculture Minister Tony… Read more
USA Pumps Billions Into Rural & Regional Communities
The USA is pumping Billions directly into its farm sector in an effort to jump start rural & regional communities economy. WASHINGTON, March 9, 2009 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack… Read more
South American Beef Anyone?
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… Read more
What a Week For The Free Traders
What a week it’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… Read more
Free Trade A Mythological Dream for Governments – A Nightmare for Farmers
Incompetent politicians on both sides of the Tasman have bargained away our Agriculture industries in their rush to embrace global free trade. ABC’s Lateline host Tony Jone’s interview with World… Read more
Simon Crean Asean Free Trade Agreement Opens Australia Up to a Flood of Cheap Imports
Australia’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… Read more
Australia The Stupidest Nation On Earth #4 – I’m Feeling Like Winston Churchill
Agmates editor Steve Truman writes: I’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… Read more
We Hope You Love Eating Chinese
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… Read more
