How Does China Influence Australia's Economy

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The Influence of China’s demand for Australia’s resources on our Economy Globalisation has been occurring rapidly in the recent decades throughout the world which has resulted in the free movement of people, the advancement in technology and an increase in global trade. This has allowed countries around the world to integrate and influence foreign economies more dramatically. Trading can even go back to the times of World War 2 to the times of 2000 when Australia’s globalisation was increasing trade with Asia like China. China is a small country who has a population over just over 1.3 Billion, there economic growth rate stands at 9.6% [1] and as a result they have a reasonably high inflation rate of 6.2%. [2] The influence of China’s…show more content…
From this increase in globalisation, on the 18 April 2005, Australia and China agreed to commence negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). This was finished in March 2005 which resulted in both China and Australia deciding both countries would benefit from a free trade agreement. The purpose of the free trade agreement was to ease transactions, eliminate price floors and subsidies and to promote more business between the two countries to promote economic efficiency that will allow both China and Australia to benefit. The formation of this agreement has created many benefits such as the reduction of transaction costs and improvement in their efficiency. The trade agreement improves the flow of trade across goods and services and to provide a firm foundation for the future economic relationship between Australia and China. The Free Trade graph shows that the equilibrium of Qe,Pe exists in closed economy not engaging in trade. When the free trade agreement is implemented the country imports goods from another country that are of a lower domestic cost compared to themselves enabling the price of that good to be lowered shown by P1. Supply is therefore reduced by the importing country as the price of the good has been lowered. Point B on the graph shows the demand increase as the new imported good lowers the price and therefore the quantity demanded
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