FILE PHOTO: A giant kettle pours molten aluminium into moulds as an employee skims the skin off previously poured moulds at an Alcoa Inc. smelting plant at Point Henry, Australia, on Wednesday, July 30, 2008. Australia has been hit with a blanket 10 per cent tariff on goods exported to the United States, rising to 50 per cent on steel and aluminium. - Bloomberg
SYDNEY: Australia will push to expand free trade agreements with other countries to reduce its reliance on the United States, Trade Minister Don Farrell said Sunday (June 8), slamming President Donald Trump's "unjustified" tariffs.
Australia is a close US ally but has been slugged with a blanket 10 per cent tariff on goods exported to the United States, rising to 50 per cent on steel and aluminium, as part of Trump's sweeping global duties.
