Trade and Assistance Review 2001-02

CONTENTS

Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Foreword, Contents, Abbreviations, Key Points

1 Introduction

2 Assistance and structural change
2.1 The changing structure of production and trade
2.2 Sectoral changes

3 National assistance estimates
3.1 Commonwealth budgetary assistance
3.2 State budgetary assistance
3.3 Tariff assistance
3.4 Agricultural pricing and regulatory assistance
3.5 Restrictions on trade in services
3.6 Trends in anti-dumping activity
3.7 Combined tariff, budgetary and agricultural pricing and regulatory assistance

4 Recent developments in assistance to selected industries
4.1 Dairy
4.2 Sugar
4.3 Citrus growing and processing
4.4 The automotive industry
4.5 Textiles, clothing and footwear
4.6 Tourism
4.7 Airlines
4.8 Ethanol

5 Recent developments in assistance to activities and firms
5.1 Accelerated depreciation provisions
5.2 Export assistance
5.3 Small and medium sized enterprises
5.4 Drought relief
5.5 Commonwealth investment attraction and firm-specific assistance
5.6 State and Territory investment attraction and firm-specific assistance

6 Recent developments in trade policy
6.1 Multilateral trade negotiations
6.2 Preferential trading arrangements
6.3 The WTO’s Trade Policy Review of Australia

Appendix A Commonwealth budgetary assistance estimates

Appendix B State and Territory budgetary assistance estimates

Appendix C New South Wales budgetary assistance estimates

Appendix D Victorian budgetary assistance estimates

Appendix E Queensland budgetary assistance estimates

Appendix F Western Australian budgetary assistance estimates

Appendix G South Australian budgetary assistance estimates

Appendix H Tasmanian budgetary assistance estimates

Appendix I Australian Capital Territory budgetary assistance estimates

Appendix J Northern Territory budgetary assistance estimates

Appendix K Anti-dumping and countervailing activity

References