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Can Australian Manufacturing be Brought Back Home from China?

Logistics Bureau

A strategic consideration for many firms is that sourcing from China also offers them access to the ever-growing and ever-spending domestic Chinese consumer market. This is no fairy tale, but an example of the cost challenges of manufacturing consumer products at home. Access to China’s Mass Consumer Market.

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New: Global Trade Map 2016

Supply Chain Movement

EU FTAs and PTAs range from the classic FTA, such as between the EU and Mexico (which focuses predominantly on liberation of goods and services), to more enhanced forms of the FTA like the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA), between the EU and Ukraine for example. Saint Helena. Saint Kitts and Nevis. Saint Lucia. San Marino.