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As part of continuing improvements to PAX, the Australian Sanctions Office will be introducing a new application form for a sanctions permit. Due to technical limitations, information in applications that were submitted on the existing form cannot be carried across to the new form format. 

Today, the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Area (AANZFTA) Upgrade enters into force between Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Laos PDR, and Brunei Darussalam. 

Australian exporters and businesses are invited to attend a briefing on the US tariff changes tomorrow, Wednesday 9 April, at 11:00am AEST.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is analysing the impacts of the tariffs on Australia and global trading partners announced today by United States President Donald Trump.

We extend our deepest sympathies and condolences to the peoples of Myanmar and Thailand following the earthquake that struck central Myanmar on March 28, 2025.

China’s military and coast guard exercises around Taiwan during 1-2 April were deeply concerning. Australia strongly opposes actions that increase the risk of accident, miscalculation and escalation.

The Australian Government is concerned by recent developments that destabilise Bosnia and Herzegovina’s national institutions and inflame ethnic tensions.

The MoU, which is an update of a previous MoU signed in 2001, includes a practical plan that outlines collaboration activities, including bilateral education visits and best practice inspection resources.

The Governments of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States held the inaugural meeting of the Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team Steering Committee.

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and the Singapore Department of Statistics (DOS) have produced a short article on their collaborative efforts on developing a set of common indicators to measure the green economy. This important collaboration is being advanced under the Singapore-Australia Green Economy Agreement (GEA).