Australia and Japan - How distance and complementarity shape a remarkable commercial relationship

Technical note

Unless otherwise specified, all data referred to in this report are in nominal Australian dollars.

The principal sources of data are the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade STARS database, the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Bank of Japan, Japan's Ministry of Finance, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the International Monetary Fund.

All data are for calendar years, except for Australian historical data which are only available for the Australian financial year, which runs from 1 July to 30 June.

An edited version of the 'Note on results' from the 2008 DFAT-ANU Services Trade Project, prepared by Jenny Corbett, Fuku Kimura, Kazu Hayakawa and Arata Kuno, is available online at <www.dfat.gov.au/eau>.

Abbreviations and acronyms

ABS	Australian Bureau of Statistics
AP6	Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate
ASEAN	Association of Southeast Asian Nations
CAGE	cultural, administrative, geographic and economic
CSIRO	Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
DFAT	Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
ELICOS	English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students
GATT	General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GDP	gross domestic product
ICT	information and communication technology
IMF	International Monetary Fund
LNG	liquefied natural gas
OECD	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
R&D	research and development
TAFE	Technical and Further Education
WTO	World Trade Organization
UNFCCC	United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry

Title: Australia and Japan: How distance and complementarity shape a remarkable commercial relationship

ISBN: 978 1921244 8 96 (pbk.)

Notes: Bibliography.

Subjects: Australia - Commerce - Japan. Japan - Commerce - Australia. Australia - Relations - Japan. Japan - Relations - Australia.

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