This Month
It was once worth $1.2b – will Australia’s Chinese wine trade recover?
Australian wine exports to China have generated $612 million since Beijing lifted tariffs last year, but the market’s future remains uncertain.
- Lucy Slade
Howard backs free trade and fossil fuels in Trump era
Trade experts doubt a 20-year free trade agreement between Australia and the US will influence Donald Trump’s decision on tariffs.
- John Kehoe
December 2024
Trump threatens to take back Panama Canal
The president-elect argued that ships were charged “ridiculous” fees to pass through the vital transportation channel linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
- Updated
- Bill Barrow and Will Weissert
- Exclusive
- AI
Husic chases Australian edge in AI, industry says faster pace needed
Industry Minister Ed Husic will announce a National AI Capability Plan in Singapore on Monday where he is signing a memorandum of understanding on AI co-operation.
- Ronald Mizen
China investigates Nvidia as tech war with US escalates
The State Administration for Market Regulation opened a probe into the chipmaker over suspicions that it broke anti-monopoly laws around a 2020 deal.
- Amy Thomson
- Exclusive
- Trade wars
Trump tariffs ‘not too disruptive’, Goldman’s top economist predicts
He expects the US president-elect’s slug on imports will be smaller than threatened, but warns they would hit growth hard if fully implemented.
- John Kehoe
End of sanctions as China lifts bans on beef
China has removed sanctions from two Australian abattoirs, bringing to an end an avalanche of tariffs and de facto bans that began four years ago.
- Phillip Coorey
- Updates
- Trump's White House
Australian farmers caught in Trump’s $16b trade war crosshairs
Barley and other farmers face being squeezed out of the market as the incoming president seeks an agriculture deal with China.
- Jessica Sier
November 2024
Qatar still pushing for extra flights as ACCC gives interim approval
Giving the Middle Eastern airline extra landing rights would make life even more difficult for Qantas, which faces delays getting new planes and a hefty capex bill.
- Ayesha de Kretser
$A hits four-month low on Trump’s tariff pledge
The greenback soared on Tuesday after the US president-elect pledged hefty levies on its three major trading partners. That sent the Aussie to its weakest level since August.
- Updated
- Cecile Lefort
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
How investors can war game Trump’s tariffs
We knew tariffs on China were coming, but it’s the president-elect’s trade hit to Mexico and Canada that should get investors thinking.
- James Thomson
- Updated
- Global economy
Chalmers seeks market calm after Trump pledges tariff hits
The president-elect has vowed to impose levies from the moment he is inaugurated, in retaliation for supposed illegal immigration and drug trafficking.
- Updated
- Andrew Tillett and Joshua Peach
- Exclusive
- Trump diplomacy
Trump may use tariffs to hit back at PM’s tech crackdown
American and Australian officials are warning the Albanese government that its crackdown on social media platforms could anger the incoming US president into putting tariffs on $33 billion of exports.
- John Kehoe, Matthew Cranston and Tom McIlroy
- Opinion
- Foreign relations
Trump picks put Australia in the crossfire with China
The frenzy around a reinvigorated Republican administration can only make the voter ride much bumpier for everyone, Anthony Albanese included.
- Jennifer Hewett
G20 goes soft on Russia as Putin threatens to use nuclear weapons
The G20 has ended with a whimper with watered-down statements on Russia, climate change and the Middle East.
- Phillip Coorey
Albanese lays out his red line after Xi demands more access for China
Xi Jinping has rekindled a key demand that Australia provide greater foreign investment access to Chinese interests in return for increased trade.
- Updated
- Phillip Coorey
Australia and allies lift pressure on G20 and Trump over Ukraine
Anthony Albanese says conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine are key drivers of hunger, poverty, high inflation and rises in energy prices, and world leaders should acknowledge this.
- Phillip Coorey
PM to meet Xi, tell G2O to show a backbone on Ukraine, Middle East
At the G20, Anthony Albanese says conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine are key drivers of hunger, poverty and high inflation and energy prices and world leaders should acknowledge this.
- Phillip Coorey
China’s $2b Peru port faces obstacles from the Andes to the Amazon
While Chancay may rekindle an old dream of integrating South America’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts, there is no effective way to make it happen.
- Dayanne Sousa and Rachel Gamarski
Trump asks Lighthizer to be US trade chief, Financial Times reports
Robert Lighthizer, one of the leading figures in Trump’s trade war with China, has been asked to return as US Trade Representative.
- Reuters