Simplified Trade System Implementation Taskforce

The STS Taskforce is ensuring that Australia has a world-class cross-border trade environment, delivering the most significant trade reforms in more than a decade. Australias current cross-border trade environment is more complex and less efficient than it needs to be. Business face challenges navigating complicated and siloed import and export processes in government, as well as out-dated and duplicated regulations and ICT systems. This costs them time, effort and money and ultimately reduces Australias competitiveness on the global stage. The STS Taskforce, led by Mr Randall Brugeaud, is leading reforms that will make it easier to do business. The reforms will boost Australias economic recovery and growth by facilitating cross-border trade. The simplification of regulations, processes and systems will create opportunities to diversify markets and improve the overall resilience of supply chains. In 2021-22, the STS Taskforce delivered the first ever baseline of Australias curre...