Australia's trade survival depends on beating Trump's tariff contagion
The prime minister will not be too troubled by missing yesterday's meeting with Donald Trump at the G7 in Canada. He faced a Herculean task in securing tariff relief or any kind of meaningful guarantee on AUKUS as the Pentagon's review of the agreement begins.
In any case, Australian trade officials, alongside their Southeast Asian counterparts, are engaged on a mission of far greater urgency: to stop the Trump tariff contagion from spreading.
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