Sunfish, pretty much on the money, Austrade is a joke and EFIC is likewise totally unsupportive of Australian innovation in manfacture, we used to have a viable electronics manufacturing Industry in Adelaide which is all but decimated today and only really small scale supporting ASG and similar with piece work.
The sanctions in the so called "free trade" agreement "bi lateral bullsh*t" with the U.S. means other than very selective food items that the U.S. has out of season there is no real export to the U.S.
The U.S. uses Australia as trade offsets into Asia as their own dealings with the emerging Asian economies are fragile as opposed to ours which are strong and growing.
The Japan U.S. alliance of convenience is slowly being strangled by overt bureacracy on both sides operating in concert to screw each other like dancing with wolves.
Mahindra is very well respected in India and their principal export market is the Middle East so the Gippsland Developed product should do well and get access to markets denied to Australia.
For Australia it is yet another failure of Government no matter which party is in power the bureacracy kills Australian innovation.
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