Trade & Assistance Review 2006-07
Annual Report Series
Trade & Assistance Review 2006-07 was released on 4 April 2008. The review contains the Commission’s latest quantitative estimates of Australian Government assistance to industry. It also examines recent developments in assistance in various sectors of the economy over the year or so prior to the commencement of the caretaker period in October 2007, and outlines some recent international policy developments affecting Australia’s trade. The review also discusses some issues in the design and review of industry assistance. Also see:
CONTENTS
Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Preface, Contents, Abbreviations, Key points
1 Introduction
2 Assistance estimates
2.1 Tariff assistance
2.2 Australian Government budgetary assistance
2.3 Agricultural pricing and regulatory assistance
2.4 Combined assistance
3 Recent developments in general industry assistance
3.1 R&D and its commercialisation
3.2 New technologies
3.3 Export marketing and international business integration
3.4 Energy-related assistance
3.5 Assistance to tourism
3.6 Automotive assistance
3.7 Support for film and television production
3.8 Regional adjustment assistance
3.9 Small business support
3.10 Anti-dumping and countervailing measures
4 Selected developments in assistance for rural industries
4.1 Drought relief
4.2 The Agriculture - Advancing Australia package
4.3 Industry-specific assistance
wheat
pigmeat
wool
horses
forests
food
4.4 Assistance for rural resource management
5 Recent developments in trade policy
5.1 Trade agreements
5.2 WTO Trade Policy Review of Australia
6 Some issues in designing and reviewing industry assistance
6.1 The evolution of industry assistance
6.2 'Productive' industry assistance
6.3 Areas of assistance for review
A Detailed budgetary assistance estimates
B Antidumping and countervailing activity
References
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