The Importance of Trade Rules

"It's so encouraging to hear you talking about the importance of trade rules and the benefits from open markets," says Mayor Bill Shorten. "I think we're going through a period where that's really being challenged now discussions around French oring and in industrial policy in Australia." Mr Shorten: The enormous expansion of trade is it didn't happen accidentally, enabled by huge reductions in the cost of transportation and communication. 'These are enabling tools that are not going away to be uninvented'