Trade and Investment

This could be very good news – international trade is growing again after two years of decline

A ship is loaded with containers at Sydney's Port Botany container terminal March 4, 2013. Australia's trade deficit shrank by much more than expected in February to its smallest in 14 months thanks to higher prices for resource exports.

This halts two years of declining figures. Image: REUTERS/David Gray

Alex Gray
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