Australia scraps plan to reform rules on book imports
16 November 2009
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.
“In the circumstances of intense competition from online books and e-books, the government judged that changing the regulations governing book imports is unlikely to have any material effect on the...
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