Environmental Goods

• Trade and Tariffs
• Tariff Elimination

Trade and Tariffs

The environmental sector includes a variety of products geared toward improving the environment and human safety. Environmental goods accounted for 0.57 percent of total U.S. exports to Australia in 2003, totaling $70 million. The top U.S. exports in this sector are scientific instrumentation, laboratory furnaces and ovens, and surveying equipment. Australia’s tariffs on environmental goods range from zero to 15 percent, with an average of 4.5 percent in 2003.

Australian exports to the United States totaled $30 million in 2003, or 0.52 percent of the country’s total exports to the United States. Australia’s top exports to the United States in this sector are surveying equipment, measuring equipment and water purification equipment. The United States applies tariffs on environmental goods that range between zero and eight percent, with an average of 1.5 percent.

Tariff Elimination

Both Australia and the United States will eliminate all tariffs on environmental goods immediately upon implementation of the agreement.

International Trade Administration
Manufacturing and Services
Office of Trade Policy Analysis