Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

I just did take you through the numbers. Looking backwards, the assessment is that permit applications for export to the United Kingdom and the United States accounted for 900 of the 3,000 applications assessed. It is, I think, not possible to predict how many applications are made. It is possible to say that the requirements for applications will be simpler and more straightforward and that, if any assessment of what has previously occurred suggests that the national exemptions for the United Kingdom and the United States will mean that almost a third of those export permit applications will no longer be required, that's a reasonable basis for making some assessment about what the future requirement for applications will be.