How can the Commonwealth government evaluate gains to agriculture from a China free trade agreement (FTA), if it doesn’t know whether the key market for Australian farmers is the domestic one or the one for exports?
Australian agriculture has benefited little from the Japan-Australia Economic Partnership Agreement concluded in April this year. It did not improve, or only marginally improved, market access for dairy, sugar, grains, pork and rice.
Now there are rumblings in Canberra tha…
