Mark Vaile

Mark Vaile
Mark Anthony James Vaile AOis a former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and former leader of the National Party of Australia. Vaile is currently a non-executive director of a number of public listed corporations...
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Australian service suppliers and investors in sectors such as legal, financial and professional services, telecoms, education and environmental services will be the main beneficiaries of the FTA,
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Our interest is in having the tariff and the quota removed as soon as possible. That's what we continue to argue for,
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I've seen the reports and, yes, our consular officials from Cairo are currently seeking to confirm those reports and to provide consular assistance to the Australian women, but there are not too many more details available,
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I don't believe the meeting should be postponed, even if the EU does not put forward a better proposal, ... I believe that the EU and France would need to account for their actions before the parliament of world opinion.
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In the December round of talks, there will be detailed negotiations on draft chapters of the agreement on services and investment and the first in-depth consideration of market access for goods. It will be our third round of talks since we started negotiations in March this year,
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The US offer on domestic subsidies has thrown a challenge at the feet of the EU to come forward with a much more ambitious proposal on market access.
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There's still a lot of work to be done.
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The big difference in this organization now is Lamy. Lamy is uniquely suited to the task at hand.
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Any discussion of zonal tax rates immediately raises constitutional issues. The chances of changing section 99 of the Constitution by referendum on this issue are zero,
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France and other EU members have taken the EU to the brink of collapsing the round,
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The U.S. proposal is a good start. We now need to push forward to achieve real progress in lowering barriers to agricultural trade,
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Certainly (arbitration) is the other avenue of pursuit open to us (but) I believe that through the current process we will achieve a satisfactory outcome,
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enormous opportunities to Australian companies interested in profiting in the world's largest and most dynamic economy.
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Our expectations are that that (EU tariff cut) figure needs to be well above 54 percent. It's a positive move in the right direction but still not enough.