US-AUSTRALIA DEAL THREAT
February 1st, 2004
BY MATTHEW BRACETHE INTERNATIONAL trade deal between the USA and Australia - which has been welcomed by the antipodean non-ferrous metals industry - could be threatened by anger amongst Australian sugar producers who have been excluded. They say they may use their influence amongst right-wing and independent members of the Australian senate to stall ratification, in a chamber not numerically controlled by the country's Liberal-National government. Under the agreement, Australia's sugar export quota for the US, (the world's biggest sugar market) will stay fixed at ...
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