Senator CANAVAN (Queensland—Nationals Whip in the Senate) (16:10): I move: That the Senate notes that: (a) Australia's export of coal to China is worth approximately $9.3 billion per year; (b) China currently imposes a tariff of 3 per cent on these coking coal exports and a 6 per cent tariff on thermal coal exports; (c) the signing of the China Australia Free Trade Agreement will eliminate the 3 per cent coking coal tariff immediately, and the 6 per cent tariff on thermal coal within 2 years; (d) the elimination of these tariffs will save Australia's coal industry around $380 million per year leading to more jobs for Australians in an industry which already directly employs 54 000 people; and (e) the displacement of poorer quality coal from other countries with Australian coal will reduce global emissions significantly. Question agreed to.