Australia- Trade and Immigration Background As Joycelyn
has mentioned Australia's having greater and greater
interaction with its Asian neighbours, through the areas of
trade and its active role in the regional trade organization -
APEC. Despite its location, Australia can hardly be thought
of being an Asian country. Not so long ago, Asian were
looked down upon, with a mixture of fear because of the
communist aggression, pity because of their poverty, and
contempt, as they dumped cheap and poorly made products
to do Australian workers out of job. For decades, high
prohibitive tariffs blocked the imports of Asian goods, and a
'White Australia' policy fenced off Asian migrants. However,
the situation is reversed in the past 2 decades. With East
Asia being the fastest growing economy, and the
development of regional trade blocs in their traditional
trading partners such as the EC and NAFTA that tend to
emphasize internal trade, Asia becomes Australia's single
most......
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