Shortening Imagined Distance: Toward the Bilateral Free Trade Agreement

Abstract

The FTA to which Chile and Australia subscribed in 2008 became Australia’s fifth FTA and the first and only one so far concluded with a Latin American country. The FTA is officially described by Australia as the most comprehensive outcome on goods in any such agreement negotiated with another country producing agricultural products since the Australia New Zealand Closer Economic Agreement, which came into effect in 1983. The agreement signed by both states encouraged trade cooperation and opened up space for alliances in human capital, as explained in chapter 1 of this book.