Australia seeks to revive free-trade push with digital agenda

London | Australia will look to liberalise data flows and harmonise tech standards with Britain as part of the recently launched free-trade talks, in what appears to be a part of a broader Morrison Government push to drive forward a new digital trade agenda.

Trade Minister Simon Birmingham told an online business audience in Australia and Britain late on Monday (AEST) that he wanted to see the Australia-Britain free-trade agreement (FTA) adopt broadly the same suite of measures that Canberra recently nutted out with Singapore.