17 Aug 09 | Victoria’s exports in FY 2009 were $20.4 billion down slightly from $20.5 billion in previous financial year. The larger increases were in pharmaceuticals, meat, miscellaneous edible products, vegetables and fruit, cereals and petroleum.
13 Aug 09 | The Gateway to the US program is designed for companies considering doing business in the world’s largest and most lucrative market. Since 2002, hundreds of Australian and New Zealand innovative companies have taken part in the Gateway to the US.
13 Aug 09 | Australia’s monthly trade deficit was $441 million down from $737 million. Exports rose 2 % including a large rise in gold exports. The decline in Victoria included falls in exports of cars, car engines, dairy products, steel and aluminium partly offset by increases in exports of pharmaceuticals and vegetables and fruit.
03 Jul 09 | Australia's trade balance in April was a deficit of $556 million compared with a deficit of $282 million in the previous month. Exports fell 5 % including large falls in coal and gold. The decline in Victoria included falls in exports of cars and car engines, iron and steel and aluminium partly offset by increases in exports of vegetables and fruit, plastics, cereals, pharmaceuticals and meat.
01 Jul 09 | Dandenong-based Advanced Polymer Technology Australasia (APTA) is in the running to give the Australian hockey teams a home turf advantage at the London 2012 Olympic Games by providing the synthetic turf for the hockey stadium, thanks to support from the Victorian Government.
01 Jul 09 | The Greater Sunraysia Pest Free Area (PFA) project has met with success with the first consignments of citrus being shipped under the new export arrangements to Japan.
22 Jun 09 | Australia’s agricultural export industries stand to gain with the Federal Government agreeing to provide $40 million to fund vital reforms to cut red tape and improve efficiency in the export process.
17 Jun 09 | Industry and Trade Minister, Martin Pakula, today met with members of the Export Gippsland network to discuss the impact of the global financial crisis on their businesses and how the Victorian Government is supporting local industry. Leading Gippsland manufacturers and exporters attending the roundtable included K & C Fisheries, Patties Foods, Phase Change Converters and Victorian American Imports.
17 Jun 09 | Cultural ties between Melbourne and Scotland are growing even stronger with the Malthouse Theatre’s new show Optimism to feature at the Edinburgh International Festival in August. Arts Minister Lynne Kosky joined visiting Edinburgh International Festival Director, Jonathan Mills, to celebrate the Brumby Government’s three-year Melbourne-Edinburgh Cultural Exchange Initiative.
17 Jun 09 | The ABS today released exports of services data for calendar year 2008. Victoria’s exports of services rose 16.6 % over the previous year to $13.9 billion. Education services increased by 25 % to $4.9 billion and have more than tripled in the past seven years. Tourism exports (including both business and personal credits) rose 12 %, to $2.8 billion. Exports of other services rose 14 % to $3.7 billion.