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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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