OCD, they don't already. There are large technological platforms like Amazon, Ebay and Alibaba which are changing the face of trade more the older larger volume trade. These work better getting their product into us than ours into their economy. Amazon very much so, their placement formula for search results rewards price, warehousing (internal or external to Amazon), speed of previous deliveries, Amazon margins, volume, etc. It is very hard for Aussie suppliers to trump local suppliers on those metrics.
Amazon represents something like 47% of all online sales in the USA. We can sign all the trade deals we like, but this large private company is unregulated (as you would expect a private company to be). As Aussies if we keep choosing an Amazon product because it is $5 cheaper we cant be too surprised if our neighbour becomes unemployed and starts purloining our grocery deliveries. I sound like a commie but extreme social inequality isn't that great. I have friends in Brazil with full time armed guards, not really how I would like to live.
Amazon represents something like 47% of all online sales in the USA. We can sign all the trade deals we like, but this large private company is unregulated (as you would expect a private company to be). As Aussies if we keep choosing an Amazon product because it is $5 cheaper we cant be too surprised if our neighbour becomes unemployed and starts purloining our grocery deliveries. I sound like a commie but extreme social inequality isn't that great. I have friends in Brazil with full time armed guards, not really how I would like to live.

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