APEC Study Centre

US Free Trade Agreement – The New Opportunities and Impacts

1 and 2 March 2004, Rydges Hotel Canberra

In early March 2004, the text of the proposed Free Trade Agreement with the United States was made public. This Agreement will have far reaching effects. Public attention has focused on some key issues – access to agricultural markets, impact on cultural industries and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

The effect will be wider. A number of Australian industries are gearing for the new business opportunities the FTA will create. This conference was organized to provide an expert review of the detail and impact of the FTA as well as full range of opportunities it creates.

This Conference was organized by the Australian APEC Study Centre which hosted the previous two leading national conferences on the FTA. It is being sponsored by AUSTA, the Australian business group for an FTA with the United States.

Guest Speaker: Hon. Mark Vaile MP, Minister for Trade -How the Deal was Done

Dr. Andrew Stoeckel, Executive Director, Centre for International Economics, Canberra, Economic impacts from an Australia– United States Free Trade Area

Alan Oxley, Australian APEC Study Centre, AUSFTA – A “Plus”Agreement: A plus for Australia, “WTO Plus” and a plus for APEC

Chris Phillips, General Manager, International Trade Development, Dairy Australia, Dairy in the US Free Trade Agreement

Stephen Martyn, Chief Executive Council, Australian Meat Council, The US Free Trade Agreement - A Good Deal for The Red Meat Sector?

Scanlan, Phil Tomorrow’s Rules Today; Not Yesterday’s Rules Tomorrow

Kim Dalton, Chief Executive, Australian Film Commission, Cultural Impacts

Stephen Strachan, Chief Executive, Winemakers Federation, Capitalising on more secure markets

Robert Bugge, Partner, Southern Cross Lawyers, The U.S. Government Procurement Market

Steve Haynes, Director, Strategic Relations, Medicines Australia, The triumph is in the text

Philip Davies, Deputy Secretary, Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, Health impacts

Stephen Fox, Attorney General’s Department, AUSFTA: Copyright

Andrew Lumsden, Partner, Corrs Chambers Westgarth Lawyers Gaining from Investment

Alison Terry, Executive Director, Corporate Affairs, General Motors Presentation

John Dunkley, Director, Milne Dunkley Customs & Forwarding, Rules of Origin in the Australia US FTA

Mitch Hooke, Chief Executive Officer, Minerals Council of Australia, Environment & Labour under the FTA

Senator Stephen Conroy, Shadow Minister for Trade, Australia-United States Trade Agreement
Sorting Fact From Fiction

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