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16 November 2009

Australia scraps plan to reform rules on book imports

Peter Ollier, Hong Kong

Australia’s government has decided against lifting the country’s restrictions on the parallel importation of books

In doing so it has ignored recommendations in a report from the country’s Productivity Commission in July 2009 which said that the parallel importation restrictions should be scrapped.




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