We consulted with the governments of the state and the territory during the negotiations, and none of the other state and territory governments expressed those kinds of concerns… An important difference between the Singapore Free Trade Agreement and the Thai Free Trade Agreement is that, with regard to Singapore, many consultations with states and territories have focused on issues such as public procurement and services. In this case, a negative list approach was adopted and the potential impact on the flexibility of state and territory regulation was therefore quite significant. In this case, these concerns simply do not arise. The content of the negotiations, if you will, has not been as relevant to the states and territories. All I can assume is that the reservations or concerns expressed by the ACT government reflect a misunderstanding of the differences between the two agreements and that they may not have yet looked at the fine print on public procurement and services in the TAFTA. In 197, we set certain limits, some markers that we believe are non-negotiable, such as a complete liberalisation of trade flows. But in other respects, there is flexibility in the frei trade agreement model to take into account the status of the partner in developing countries… The agreement provides for the possibility of enforcing increases where the developing country partner has concerns or problems for which it believes it should be considered.182 In addition to the fundamental commitments to trade liberalization in the various products and services, the TAFTA contains provisions relating to intellectual property protection, customs procedures, e-commerce , competition policy and public procurement (2). , based on their individual business plans. But at the end of the day, there has been strong support since its inception and early debate, and we have been pleased with the extent of the discussions we have had with trade representatives in their development to this point.78 Would focus on the provisions of the agreement and all the clear explanations that the government has made with respect to the agreement. They may respect general international law and there may be cases that take them into account.

That would be a fairly common practice… They would look at the legal area that may exist with respect to the various articles. I would like to point out that they would focus first on the text of the agreement and on the observations made by governments on the interpretation of these various provisions.151 Pork fat, free of lean meat, and poultry fat, not rendered or otherwise extracted, fresh, refrigerated, frozen, salted, brined, dried or smoked. That is why we maintain the position that, in a free trade agreement, it is not possible for countries to somehow create a preferred scientific path for the partners of the free trade agreement.