Mark Vaile (Lyne, National Party, Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

And by Labor; I acknowledge that. The Cairns Group was established during the course of the Uruguay Round, and it is still alive and exercising influence today. In November the APEC ministers and leaders will be meeting in Vietnam, and we aim to continue to raise the level of ambition with colleagues at all these meetings to try to take advantage of the window of opportunity that still remains open. It is still this government’s No. 1 trade policy objective to get a conclusion to this round. We are not prepared to agree to an outcome that has a low level of ambition and does not deliver for agriculture and our exporters of industrial goods and services. We want a highly ambitious outcome to deliver benefits to the exporting industries in Australia, because it is only that way—through our trade policy objectives—that they will deliver on our objectives of keeping the Australian economy strong.

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