The United States and Australia should abandon the TPP and focus their efforts on trade deals that take a prudent approach to market access.
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The federal deficit will be worse in 2017-18 than predicted in the May budget, despite some easing in the delays imposed by the Senate, Deloitte Access Economics’ budget monitor predicts.
Countries looking to make new deals may be apprehensive about encountering political hostility akin to that garnered by the TPP.
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A stalled Trans-Pacific Partnership opens the way for China, which was excluded from the agreement, to assume leadership in regional economic integration efforts in the Asia-Pacific.
President-elect Donald Trump’s avowed opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership will work in China’s favour.
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Trade bashing is a well-established practice among US presidential candidates. The difference with Trump is that he may actually deliver on his rhetoric.
Malcolm Turnbull is taking the approach of trying to get in early with the President-elect, while reassuring Australians the alliance with the United States remains safe.
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During the election campaign the University of Canberra’s focus group in the seat of Indi was asked who’d be the better prime minister to deal with a possible Trump presidency.
Trump must know low-tech manufacturing jobs are not coming back to America.
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The president-elect has made some worrying noises on a range of issues, and from Australia’s perspective the most worrying of all is the relationship with China.
The world reacts to President-Elect Donald Trump.
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America appears as divided over key aspects of foreign policy as it is at home. So how does President-elect Trump hope to handle that divide, and what will be the major issues facing him?
Protesters at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate denounce Trump.
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Trade adjustment assistance, dubbed ‘burial insurance’ by those it’s supposed to help, needs to be significantly reformed so that future trade deals don’t have so many workers feeling left behind.
Australia is keen to gain greater market access to Asia’s food, wine and dairy markets.
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Australia should look to India rather than the US Congress to secure its next regional trade win.
The G20 meeting in Hangzhou is a chance for global leaders to push back against anti-globalization forces that threaten free trade.
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Republican nominee Donald Trump isn’t in favour of the TPP.
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Research Fellow, NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in the Social Determinants of Health Equity, School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University