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An Overview of Protection of Australian Manufacturing: Past, Present and Future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2023

R. M. Conlon
R. M. Conlon*
Affiliation:
School of Economics, The University of New South Wales
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Abstract

Australia, and before Federation, the colonies, have long histories of tariff protection. However, by the end of this century tariffs for imports of most commodities will have been lowered to negligible levels. This paper briefly examines the history of the tariff and the changing structure of assistance to manufacturing in the 1980s and 1990s. As the tariff has been dismantled, a variety of alternative measures have been implemented. Thus, while the ‘old’ protectionism of tariffs on imports has been discredited, a ‘new’ form of protectionism — much to do with providing assistance for exports — has arisen to at least partially take its place. The protective effects of many of these measures is far less apparent and possibly more deleterious than the tariffs they replace.

Type
Contemporary Issues
Information
The Economic and Labour Relations Review , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , June 1994 , pp. 137 - 153
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 1994

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