Mark Vaile
Mark Vaile
Mark Anthony James Vaile AOis a former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and former leader of the National Party of Australia. Vaile is currently a non-executive director of a number of public listed corporations...
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There are many hundreds of millions of people across the world living in poverty-stricken countries who are looking to us to improve their opportunities by negotiating better market access.
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The big difference in this organization now is Lamy. Lamy is uniquely suited to the task at hand.
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The US offer on domestic subsidies has thrown a challenge at the feet of the EU to come forward with a much more ambitious proposal on market access.
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It is the European Union that is standing isolated, still standing against the agreement of this text, ... It is not the Cairns Group, it is not Australia, it is not the United States, it is not Japan holding out at this stage.
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They need to understand they are threatening the future of global trade and cheating millions of the world's poor out of new hope, ... It's not enough for them to provide aid and debt relief when the benefits of liberalizing trade are so much greater.
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Any discussion of zonal tax rates immediately raises constitutional issues. The chances of changing section 99 of the Constitution by referendum on this issue are zero,
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As authority is transferred back to an Iraqi administration in mid-2004, the reconstruction of vital oil installations will provide jobs, skills and technology to the Iraq people.
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Australian service suppliers and investors in sectors such as legal, financial and professional services, telecoms, education and environmental services will be the main beneficiaries of the FTA,
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The U.S. proposal is a good start. We now need to push forward to achieve real progress in lowering barriers to agricultural trade,
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Our interest is in having the tariff and the quota removed as soon as possible. That's what we continue to argue for,
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The pace of our export growth has already slowed significantly, and will slow further if global demand remains suppressed,
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The failure of the EU to make a meaningful offer on agricultural market access is deeply disappointing. Those EU member states who talk up their contribution to development are now blocking the most significant steps the global community could take in years to create new opportunities for the world's poorest countries.
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The negotiations are really now on the edge of a cliff and it will take a concerted effort to get the round back on track,
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In the December round of talks, there will be detailed negotiations on draft chapters of the agreement on services and investment and the first in-depth consideration of market access for goods. It will be our third round of talks since we started negotiations in March this year,