As Australia is more exposed than most other advanced economies to a further escalation of trade tensions between the US and China, the fall in its international trade surplus in February is particularly inconsequential. Even so, net exports may have made a neutral contribution to real GDP growth in the first quarter after having subtracted 0.5 percentage points in the fourth quarter of last year.
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