Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström and Australian trade minister Steven Ciobo agreed during a phone call on Thursday 6 April on a scoping exercise ahead of negotiations over an EU-Australia free-trade agreement.
Preliminary talks were carried out throughout 2016 to define the domains to be covered and the level of ambition of a future bilateral free-trade deal.
The European Commission is currently carrying out an impact assessment on a possible trade deal and its implications for the EU...