Australian Parliament Accepting Comments on FTA With UK

Australia’s Parliament officially began considering the text of the Australia-U.K. Free Trade Agreement this week and is inviting public comments on the deal, Australia said Feb. 8. The Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Treaties will accept submissions through March 18. The deal is the first trade agreement negotiated from scratch by the U.K. since it left the European Union, and is expected to drop tariffs on a range of goods (see 2112170016).