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China and Australia are negotiating what may be a major bilateral free trade deal.
A framework agreement for the potential FTA was signed in October 2003, and talks began in April 2005 after a feasibility study was conducted. Australia seeks a comprehensive agreement covering all sectors, while China seeks to limit the deal’s coverage and hoped to complete negotiations within two years. The 12th round of negotiations took place in October 2008. Australian manufacturers are worried about the potential influx of cheap Chinese goods while local horticulturalists and others are concerned about low wages and poor environmental and food safety standards behind China’s agricultural exports to Australia. Canberra, on the other hand, wants to gain more market access in China for Australian firms, including in the dairy sector where Chinese consumption is growing fast. (Australia trails behind New Zealand and the US in China’s dairy market.) last update: April 2009 Articles
Currently, Australia is the biggest exporter of iron ore, alumina, coal and liquefied natural gas to China, and China is Australia’s biggest trading partner and biggest exporting market as well as the biggest importer.
Australia says mining tax won’t threaten China FTA
| 26-May-2010
Australia Tuesday denied that its planned 40 percent mining tax would hurt attempts to strike a free-trade agreement with China, a key market for the country’s resources.
S Korea, China, Japan trade ministers see investment pact in ’10
| 24-May-2010
Trade ministers of South Korea, China and Japan are targeting to conclude an investment agreement among the three countries this year in order to promote tripartite economic and trade cooperation, Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said Sunday. 
No big breakthroughs have occurred in the five years and 14 rounds of Australia-China FTA negotiations, and none is expected in the next round, in Beijing from June 28.
Australian tax could breach treaty with China
| 10-May-2010
Mining shares plunged last week after Kevin Rudd, Australia’s prime minister, proposed a 40pc tax on mining profits, arguing that Australia’s mining boom was benefiting shareholders based abroad 
Chinese trade negotiators are due in Australia next week to resume talks on a free trade agreement. This will be the 14th round of talks in what has been a painfully slow process with "two to three more years" to go. Report from Radio Australia.
China trade talks ’very pleasing’: Crean
| 20-November-2009
Australia’s breakthrough with China on another round of negotiations on a free trade agreement after a 12 month lag is "very pleasing", Trade Minister Simon Crean says.
China pushes trade pact as Vice-Premier Li Keqiang visits
| 30-October-2009
China has signalled it wants fast progress on stalled free trade agreement talks with Australia and to use the "unique" relationship between the countries as a model for Beijing’s relations with other countries.
Primeros ministros de China y Australia piden pronto acuerdo sobre libre comercio
| 26-October-2009
El primer ministro de China Wen Jiabao y su homólogo de Australia Kevin Rudd, pidieron la pronta firma del Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) entre las dos importantes economías de Asia y el Pacífico.
Hansonite protest out of left field
| 22-September-2009
Signs of community concern over Chinese influence on Australian living standards are shaping up as a key domestic issue for the Rudd government as it struggles to mend its already strained relations with China. |
Le stand de l’UE à la conférence sur le sida "saisi" par des militants défenseurs des génériques
| 21-July-2010
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on the U.S.- South Korea Trade Agreement
| 30-June-2010
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