The federal government will pay American multinational Boston Consulting Group $125,000 a week to produce reports on Australia’s supply chain resilience around semiconductors and telecommunications equipment over the next...
Trade
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Electronics manufacturers such as Entech Electronics have had to beef up their supply chain and purchasing teams to meet the challenges of a global shortage of electronic components. Yaser...
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Australia has been urged to join the US in fully supporting the scrapping of IP rules around COVID-19 vaccines to assist developing nations’ immunisation efforts, with the federal government...
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Not every foreign business in China need fear the cold winds of data regulation, but multinationals that capitalise on the PRC’s vast market and R&D capacity can expect to...
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Australia’s ambassador to the United States Arthur Sinodinos has revealed a dialogue has begun with the Biden Administration aimed at securing a digital economy trade agreement along the same...
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As the US economy roars back into rude health, there are huge opportunities for local innovators to benefit from the COVID re-alignment of global supply chains, according to Australia’s...
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The federal government has gone to the market for a tech provider to develop a new foreign investment IT platform to replace the existing system, which has “not kept...
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Australian companies might be concerned about an increasingly protectionist United States and the spectre of a newly issued Made in America presidential executive order, but the Australian Government is...
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The Queensland government has established a panel of experts to assess and help guide the state’s sustainable hydrogen supply chain with an eye to building export capability no later...
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Significant reforms to Australia’s foreign investment framework have sailed through parliament with bipartisan support, despite concerns from Labor and the tech sector that they will act as a disincentive...
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Significant reforms to the popular Export Market Development Grant program have been given the green light by a Senate committee, but further details on the new rules won’t be...
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The government is rushing significant reforms to Australia’s foreign investment framework which have left much of the tech sector confused and concerned, according to the federal opposition. The government-led...
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The Morrison government has reached deep into corporate Australia to find a new chief executive for Austrade, the Australian Trade and Investment Commission, appointing the current group CEO and...
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Australian regulators are lagging global rivals on the use of software and artificial intelligence in medical products, leading to commercialisation problems that sends promising companies moving overseas. According to...