China’s dumping stoush with Australia isn’t just about barley. But it is about trade and unfinished business in global trade rules.
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There’s a risk Australia won’t get access to everything it will need need. It can take are simple stepsto make sure patents don’t get in the way.
The World Trade Organization will lose its teeth from midnight. We are entering a world with unenforceable rules.
In 1999, ahead of World Trade Organisation protests, a group of Australian activists created the first open internet publishing platform. This technology is the basis of the internet we know today.
Delivering the Lowy Lecture on Thursday night, Morrison said Australia “cannot afford to leave it to others to set the standards that will shape our global economy”.
Beijing’s view of the rule of law is very different to what most of the rest of the world understands.
American and Chinese trade negotiators are pushing hard to get a deal, but a major sticking point remains: ensuring China honors any promises it makes.
China’s so-called anti-dumping action against Australia is really an action against Australia’s overuse of anti-dumping provisions. Barley producers are caught in the crossfire.
China supplies just 2% of America’s steel, while Canada and Europe have sizeable shares and Australian steel producers depend on access to US markets.
On March 1, Donald Trump imposed a series of steel and aluminum tariffs. To understand their potential impact, it’s instructive to look at what happened after George W. Bush enacted similar measures in 2002.
Climate change will have a big impact on the global economy, for better or worse. We explore four issues that bring climate and trade negotiations head to head.
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has reportedly backed Australia’s laws on plain tobacco packaging implemented from December 2012. The apparent decision marks the end of the last of three cases brought…
A new WTO trade deal is expected to provide up to $1 trillion in economic gains by eliminating bureaucracy. But that’s not its most important benefit.
We could be witnessing the beginning of globalisation going in reverse.
After nearly two decades of legal battles and negotiations, South Africa is moving to cut the cost of medicines with policies to increase imports and local production of generic drugs.
The Uruguayan government’s victory over Philip Morris should embolden other countries to introduce stronger tobacco-control policies.
The world has global authorities for trade and security, but not for threats to the environment. It’s time the natural world got its own version of the World Trade Organisation or UN Security Council.
Supporters of the campaign to get Britain out of the European Union are touting the prospects for trade deals around the world. The true prospects, however, are far from benign.
The multilateral system is under challenge from a surge of bilateral and regional trade deals.
New EU rules on GM attempt to unblock logjam that has hung over the technology in the region for most of this century. To work, anti-GM member states and Big Biotech will need to cooperate.
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Reader in Intellectual Property Law, City, University of London
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Professor of Law, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor in Public Health, La Trobe University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, Co-Director of China International Business and Economic Law (CIBEL) Centre, Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW Sydney, UNSW Sydney
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Professor Emeritus, Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University
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School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Senior Research Consultant, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor and Director of the Policy Innovation Hub, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Professor and Distinguished Research Chair, Globalization and Health Equity, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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D.Phil. Candidate in Population Health, University of Oxford
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Honorary research associate, University of Sydney
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Professor of Business Economics, University of Birmingham
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Scholar Emeritus in the School of Public Health & Human Biosciences, La Trobe University
