Imports
Report
Australia's trade by state and territory
Australian Trade by State and Territory 2015-16 presents international trade statistics for each state andterritory of Australia as collected by the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service and theAustralian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
Fact sheet
The origin of Australian crime guns: statements from those involved in curbing the proliferation of illicit firearms
For more than a decade, people whose job it is to seize and to trace crime guns in Australia have steadily contradicted the unsourced, evidence-free opinion that most illicit firearms are smuggled into the country.
Policy
Dumping crisis
Essentially, dumping puts Australia companies at a significant disadvantage because they cant compete against these cheap below-cost imports. Examples of goods which have recently been found to have been dumped in Australia include glass, toilet paper, steel, oranges and preserved mushrooms. With over 100,000 Australian manufacturing jobs lost since 2008, it is now more important...
Statistics
Firearm imports, Australia: Non-air modern firearms for civilian possession, 1988 to 2015 (ABS)
In the 27 years from 1988 to 2015, Australians imported more than a million guns. Many of these replaced firearm types prohibited and destroyed during federal firearm buybacks, or surrendered in dozens of state gun amnesties. This table lists national firearm import totals provided by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for the years 1988/89 to...
Working paper
Developments in anti-dumping arrangements
In 2009, the Productivity Commission conducted a ‘roots and branch’ inquiry into Australia’s anti–dumping system—the first such inquiry in more than two decades. Though recommending that a system be retained, the Commission proposed various changes to make the system less protectionist and thereby reduce its detrimental impact on the wider community.