Editing Button car plan (section)

==Tariff rates==

At the beginning of the 1980s, tariff rates on motor vehicles were around 60 per cent.  Under the plan, tariff rates were reduced by 2.5 percentage points a year from 1988, falling to 15 per cent by 2000, well below the rates in many comparable countries.

Tariffs were reduced further in 2005 and 2010, and most remaining assistance was removed after 2015, leading to the end of automotive mass production in Australia.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hutchens |first=Gareth |date=2014-02-12 |title=Australia's car tariffs among world's lowest |url=https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/australias-car-tariffs-among-worlds-lowest-20140212-32iem.html |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}} "Since then, the big car makers all announced plans to pull out of Australia."</ref>