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Top geopolitical risks to Australian business 2024–25
Home › Insights › Top geopolitical risks to Australian business 2024–25 Key risk scenarios | Industry risk spotlight | Implications for Australian businesses | Why KPMG? | Download report | Contact us Geopolitics is increasingly impacting Australian business. Geopolitical tensions should concern Australian business leaders just as much as they concern their global counterparts. Three risk scenarios present major challenges to Australian businesses in 2024–25.
European Union’s green reality check
At the same time, Brussels has made a bold call for a carbon border tax. In simple terms, this will require the taxation of imported goods from countries that don’t put a price on carbon - most of the world. "Although opposition to the agreement has been presented as being about environmental concerns, there is a healthy dose of agricultural protectionism involved also.” So, what do both policy initiatives mean?
Uncertainty in an era of disrupted trade
From 1995 onwards, the world entered a period of continual trade liberalisation. " The quarantining of China’s workforce and shutdown of factories has completely disrupted global trade.” The North American Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was completed. The European Union continued to integrate and expand. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and North Asian countries inched toward liberalisation. Australia signed free trade agreements with its major trading partners.
End supply management like Aussies
Canadian policy-makers would be well advised to learn lessons from their commonwealth cousins in Australia about phasing out supply management. Canada’s policy of supply management means Canadians pay much higher prices for staple foods such as milk, cheese, eggs and poultry. These higher prices are enforced in two ways: The amount of domestic production is limited by government regulation.
End supply management - Opinion
As trade tensions between Canada and the United States over NAFTA renegotiations continue, and President Donald Trump places Canada's protection of various sectors of its agricultural industry front and centre, Canadian policy-makers would be well advised to learn lessons from their Commonwealth cousins in Australia about phasing-out supply management. Canada's policy of supply management means that Canadians pay much higher prices for staple foods such as milk, cheese, eggs and poultry.
We can wind down supply management so even farmers win. What’s stopping us?
As trade tensions between Canada and the United States over NAFTA renegotiations continue, and U.S. President Donald Trump places Canada’s protection of various sectors of its agricultural industry front and centre, Canadian policy-makers would be well advised to learn lessons from their Commonwealth cousins in Australia about phasing out supply management. Canada’s policy of supply management means that Canadians pay much higher prices for staple foods such as milk, cheese, eggs and poultry.
We can wind down supply management so even farmers win. What’s stopping us?
As trade tensions between Canada and the United States over NAFTA renegotiations continue, and U.S. President Donald Trump places Canada’s protection of various sectors of its agricultural industry front and centre, Canadian policy-makers would be well advised to learn lessons from their Commonwealth cousins in Australia about phasing out supply management. Canada’s policy of supply management means that Canadians pay much higher prices for staple foods such as milk, cheese, eggs and poultry.
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