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Food products<br />

The food products sector is adversely affected to a modest extent in the<br />

early part of the simulation period by the forecast real appreciation. Later,<br />

the sector’s exports recover as the appreciation in the real exchange rate<br />

weakens. Eventually output will have a positive deviation reflecting<br />

growth in consum<strong>pt</strong>ion in the economy at large and will increase by<br />

1.4 per cent by 2016.<br />

IT and other equipment<br />

IT and other equipment is expected to be larger than the base case<br />

forecast by 0.7 per cent by 2007. Industries in this sector are influenced<br />

by a variety of factors. Export-oriented subsets of this industry (such as<br />

agricultural and construction machinery) benefit from e-commerce via<br />

increased foreign awareness of their products. The other industries in the<br />

sector benefit from stronger investment and consum<strong>pt</strong>ion but are harmed<br />

by increased competition from imports arising from a stronger real<br />

exchange rate. There is a positive overall effect in the first decade of the<br />

simulation through e-commerce related IT acquisitions.<br />

Transport equipment<br />

This sector is dominated by the motor vehicle industry. Output from the<br />

Australian motor vehicle industry is highly sensitive to the real exchange<br />

rate. In the early part of the simulation period the industry suffers from<br />

import competition brought about by a high real exchange rate.<br />

Consequently, the sector registers no change by 2007 despite increased<br />

activity and consum<strong>pt</strong>ion. Later when the real exchange rate falls, the<br />

industry rises by 0.7 per cent by 2016 associated with increased activity in<br />

the economy.<br />

Business services<br />

The business services sector is expected to see an increase in activity by<br />

0.5 per cent to the year 2007 compared with the base case. While the<br />

sector achieves major cost reductions via e-commerce, expansion of the<br />

sector is limited by the strong link between business services and<br />

wholesale and retail trade. That is, a large number of business services act<br />

as intermediaries, which are bypassed to some extent by e-commerce<br />

supported activity.<br />

Wholesale and retail trade<br />

Wholesale and retail trade is expected to decline relative to the base case<br />

by 0.8 per cent by 2007. The fall in this sector is dominated by the<br />

negative result for retail trade. Retail trade contracts as e-commerce<br />

permits traditional retailing to be bypassed.<br />

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