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Priority 3 Target key markets
As the global economic centre of gravity shifts towards Asia and the world's middle class grows, Queensland must
seek new markets for trade and investment to support job creation and economic growth. The criteria used to identify
Queensland's key markets include past performance in trade and investment and predicted future growth.
Export performance
Queensland's major goods export markets are in Asia, led
by China, Japan, Korea and India (see Figure 7). Over the
past five years, Queensland's major goods export markets
Figure 7: Queensland's major goods export markets,
2015-1646
that have shown the greatest growth have been China, the
USA and Korea. China overtook Japan in 2013 to become
Queensland's largest export market (see Figure 8).
Figure 8: Total value of Queensland's goods exports by
markets, 2010-11 to 2015-1647
Investment performance
The USA, Japan and the UK are the top three sources of FDI
into Australia (see Figure 9).
Figure 9: Australia's major foreign direct investment source
markets, 2005 to 201548
($ billion)
($ billion)
China 23%
12
Japan 17%
Korea 13%
10
India 11%
USA 4%
Taiwan 3%
Netherlands 2%
New Zealand 2%
UK 2%
Indonesia 2%
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16
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Other countries 21%
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Japan
Korea
India
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2015-16
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Taiwan
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New Zealand
UK
Indonesia
Other countries
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