Survey of Australian foreign trade

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This is an official report concerning the state of trade between Japan and Australia and outlooks for the postwar period. The authors note the increase of trade with Australia during the war, but are realistic in their assessment of future trade growth. Japanese businesses will face great difficulties once Australia’s traditional markets in Europe, America and England re-enter the marketplace. The report analyses the effects of tariffs, bounties, the labour movement, wages and working conditions on trade with Japan.