House Standing Committee on Economics, Finance and Public Administration

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Inquiry into the state of Australia's manufactured export and import competing base now and beyond the resources boom

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Terms of Reference

The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics, Finance and Public Administration is inquiring into the state and future directions of Australia's manufactured export and import competing base, focusing on, but not limited to:

• Australia's dominance in commodities exports and the impacts of this on the economy following the resources boom;
• the state of the country's manufacturing sector (and the goods and associated services) including opportunities and challenges from the expansion in global trade (in particular by China); and
• policies for realising these opportunities.

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