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BY MATTHEW BRACE
AN INNOVATION in optical fibre technology developed in Australia has opened the way for an advance in medical imaging inside the human body, as well as significantly speeding up the capacity of personal computers. The development of hollow optic fibres made from Perspex has been achieved by a team from the Australian Photonics Cooperative Research Centre (APCRC) and the University of Sydney’s Optical Fibre Technology Centre.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Brisbane
THE AUSTRALIAN footwear industry is cautious about the new Australia-US Free Trade Agreement. Almost all lines will immediately be tariff-free if the deal is ratified, with 17 products losing tariffs over the next decade. The industry has not yet received the final list of products affected, however.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
AUSTRALIA’S Cooperative Research Centre for Mining has invented a Dragline Dutymeter, which can help raise the operational capacity of a dragline by up to 25 per cent. It is an early warning system to alert operators in real time to actions, which can rapidly degrade the machine’s reliability.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
A NEW volcanic gas and ash detector created by Australian scientists could enable the airport and airline industries to save both money and lives. The ‘Ground-based Infra-Red Detection’ (G-bIRD) system is being developed by Australia’s CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) and the country’s Tenix Defence Electronic Systems division.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States and Australia have struck a free trade deal that will ease access into the US market for Australian wool exporters. A note from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said: “For our wool industry, an industry priority of zero tariff for greasy wool, a premier Australian export industry, will be achieved within four years, and for other wool items within 10 years.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A USA-Australia trade deal could be threatened by excluded Australian sugar producers, who have threatened their influence within the Australian senate to stall ratification as their US sugar export quota remains at 87,000 tonnes. Australian Canegrowers president Jim Pedersen said Canberra “has an obligation to let us share in some of the (deal’s) benefits”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States and Australia have struck a free trade deal that will ease access into the US market for Australian wool exporters. A note from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said: “For our wool industry, an industry priority of zero tariff for greasy wool, a premier Australian export industry, will be achieved within four years, and for other wool items within 10 years.”…

KEITH NUTHALL
AUSTRALIA and the United States have agreed to mutually remove tariffs on textile and clothing traded between them, with duties on products meeting set rules of origin standards being phased out within 15 years. This, said a US Trade Representative Office note on a new American-Australian free trade deal, would “promote new opportunities for US and Australian fibre, yarn, fabric and apparel manufacturing.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has signed a free trade deal with Australia, paving the way for large-scale exports into the American market of Australian seafood, both farmed and wild. Upon the ratification and coming into force of the agreement, Australian seafood exports, currently worth around A$140 million (US$110 million), “will enter the USA market duty free immediately”, said a note from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AUSTRALIAN aluminium industry will be a key beneficiary of a new free trade deal between its government and the USA that removes all tariffs on metals traded between the two countries, Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has claimed.…