Labor believes in the power of trade to create jobs and economic development in Australia. Labor is the party of free, fair and open trade. 

Scott Morrison’s Liberals only have themselves to blame for failing to ink a free trade deal with India during Monday night’s leaders’ summit with Indian Prime Minister Modi.

By ignoring all but one of the 90 recommendations of the India Economic Strategy to 2035 report penned by Peter Varghese – which the Government received in 2018 – three successive Liberal trade ministers have failed to lay the groundwork required to secure a trade deal with India.

Senate Estimates hearings have revealed red wine producers across Australia have been let down by the Morrison-Joyce Government.

DFAT officials have sensationally revealed they knew for at least a month before negotiations on the UK-Australia FTA were concluded that the UK was proposing to impose higher excise duties on alcohol, including bottled red wine.

Trade is an important aspect of the close relationship between Australia and the UK, however we are concerned the Free Trade Agreement has been signed today without any consultation about its content or economic analysis of its impact on Australian jobs and exporters.

A report released by a World Trade Organisation dispute panel overnight means Australian sugar exporters are a step closer to a level playing field in international sugar markets.

Today I congratulated Woodside and BHP on their announcement of a final decision to proceed with the Scarborough natural gas project off the Western Australian coast.

It’s time for the Resources Minister to come clean about why it’s taking him so long to rule on the Petroleum Exploration Permit 11 (PEP-11) after he was caught misleading Parliament last month. 

Labor will support legislation to ratify the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) because it will benefit Australian exporters and workers, but calls on the Government to take a stand on the restoration of democracy in Myanmar.

Labor is calling on the Australian Government to follow through on their stated support of a waiver of World Trade Organisation intellectual property rules for COVID-19 vaccines, ahead of this week’s formal meetings of the WTO’s Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property.

The costs of Scott Morrison’s diplomatic failures on AUKUS keep rising, with the EU now suspending free trade agreement talks – putting Australian exporters and jobs in jeopardy, right when Australia needs urgent trade diversification.