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      Australia, China sign landmark free trade agreement(2)

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      2015-06-17 11:05Xinhua Editor: Gu Liping

      Robb said the agreement will open the vast Chinese market for Australian investment, primary products and services.

      He told News Corp on Wednesday that cheaper Chinese imports would help stimulate businesses such as high-end manufacturers because they could get parts more cheaply.

      "The world has changed and we need to get away from this mindset that exports are good and imports are bad. Cheaper products are also good for households and consumers, they increase buying power which translates into higher living standards," Robb said.

      Negotiations for the deal began in April 2005 and Abbott said after Wednesday's ceremony at the Australian National Gallery that it was a momentous day to finally have the ChAFTA signed and sealed.

      "I trust that today our Chinese friends will enjoy the fine beef and the good wine that will soon be more readily enjoyed by their countrymen," Abbott said.

      He described both China's president Xi Jinping and Dr. Gao as shrewd and perceptive politicians.

      "I was indeed truly delighted today to receive a letter from President Xi conveying his personal congratulations on the signing of the agreement," Abbott said.

      The president will shortly receive a letter from Abbott conveying great pleasure at "what is the beginning of the next chapter in the relationship between our two countries," he said.

      It is the third free trade agreement Robb has completed after sealing deals with Japan and South Korea.

      "It will see literally billions of dollars, many hundreds of thousands of jobs and will underpin a lot of our prosperity in the years ahead," Robb told ABC radio.

      China is Australia's top trading partner, with the two-way flow of goods and services exceeding 135 billion U.S. dollars last year.

      The agreement was hailed on Wednesday by two international relations experts in Australia who said it should bring clear benefits to both countries.

      Peter Drysdale, Head of East Asian Bureau of Economics Research, Crawford School of Public Policy at Australian National University, told Xinhua in an interview that the FTA was "an important landmark in the relationship" between China and Australia.

      "What is does is opening up opportunities for change," Drysdale said. "With the end of the commodity price boom, this is a normalization of the resource trade relationship between the two countries in which Australia will become an even more important, low-cost supplier to China. "

      "But other elements in the relationship will become more important: including the services trades that are being opened up. "

      "The Agreement with Australia can provide a foundation for Australia and China to work together in the regional beyond narrowly trade issues, through the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank for example, and globally, as China hosts the G20 next year."

      Another commentator interviewed by Xinhua, James Laurenceson, Deputy Director of the Australia-China Relations Institute at the University of Technology in Sydney, said ChAFTA had come at a great time for Australia.

      "By reducing barriers to agriculture and services trade, ChAFTA will act to not only boost the overall value of trade between Australia and China but also make it broader-based. In short, it sets up a deeper and more balanced trade relationship in the future," Laurenceson said.

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