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A thriving export sector is critical to ensuring future economic development in Tasmania. The challenge is not only to maintain our impressive level of exports - it is also to develop the export base, increase the number of exporters and produce more knowledge intensive exports.
Activities in the world market have a strong bearing on our trade performance.
These world market influences include:
- weaknesses in traditional markets
- the strengthening of the Australian dollar
- the growth of the knowledge economy
- the increasing demand for high-value services
- continuous changes driven by technological advances
- shifting consumer preferences
- increasing affluence in previously commodity buying countries
- liberalisation of markets
- the increasing importance of reductions in the supply chain.
Tasmanian exporters must be responsive to the change necessitated by these activities.
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