Review of overseas export enhancement measures
Industry Commission inquiry report
The Industry Commission Inquiry Report, Review of Overseas Export Enhancement Measures, was signed on 3 April 1992 and released in two volmes. Volume 1 contains the report chapters and appendices, and volume 2 contain studies of individual countries and regions.
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Volume 1 - Review of Overseas Export Enhancement Measures (PDF 776.7 KB)Contents
Volume 1
- Preliminaries
- Cover, Copyright, Signing Page, Contents, Abbreviations, Overview, Recommendations, Findings
- 1 The Inquiry
- 2 Why Enhance Exports?
- 2.1 The benefits from trade
- 2.2 Determinates of export
- 2.3 Rationals for export enhancement measures
- 2.4 Concluding comments
- 3 Subsidies and the GATT
- 3.1 Subsidies in theory
- 3.2 GATT provisions
- 3.3 Concluding comments
- 4 Export Subsidies
- 4.1 Use of the subsidies - an overview
- 4.2 The problem of agricultural assistance
- 4.3 Research and development assistance
- 4.4 Infrastrucuture
- 4.5 The evidence from countervailing actions
- 4.6 Concluding comments
- 5 Export Finance Assistance
- 5.1 Export finance agencies
- 5.2 Forms of export finance assistance
- 5.3 International use and cost of export finance
- 5.4 Why governments underwrite exports
- 5.5 Effects of export finance assistance
- 5.6 Effects on the Australian economy of foreign finance assistance
- 5.7 Concluding comments
- 6 Tax Incentives
- 6.1 Tax incentives to encourage exports
- 6.2 GATT consistency of tax incentives
- 6.3 Comparing the use of tax regimes to encourage investment
- 6.4 Economic effects
- 6.5 Concluding comments
- 7 Export Processing Zones
- 7.1 Rationale for establishing EPZs
- 7.2 Rationale for investing in EPZs
- 7.3 The performance of EPZs
- 7.4 Growth triangles
- 7.5 Science parks
- 7.6 Concluding comments
- 8 Export Marketing Assistance
- 8.1 Rationale for government involvement in the provision of information and risk sharing
- 8.2 Types of export marketing assistance
- 8.3 Economic effects
- 8.4 Developing an export culture
- 8.5 Concluding comments
- 9 Trade-related Investment Measures
- 9.1 Types of export-related investment measures
- 9.2 Use of export-related investment measures
- 9.3 Economic effects
- 9.4 Concluding comments
- A Conduct of the inquiry
- A.1 Visits
- A.2 Participants
- B Australia's export enhancement measures
- B.1 Export subsidies
- B.2 Export marketing
- B.3 Export finance assistance
- B.4 Trade-related investment measures
- B.5 Research and development
- B.6 Recent reviews of programs
- C GATT provisions
- C.1 Selected Articles from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
- C.2 Agreement on interpretation and application of Articles VI, XVI and XXIII of The General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (The Tokyo Subsidy Code)
- C.3 Letter from Australia to the United States concerning the Subsidies Code
- D International agreements on export finance
- D.1 The Berne Union
- D.2 The OECD Arrangement on guidelines for officially supported export credits
- D.3 The GATT Subsidies Code
- D.4 Recent agreements
- References
