Passenger motor cars are the most prominent item, with the Austrian-built Chrysler Voyager and Jeep Cherokee exported to Australia since 1996. Other imports included musical instruments, paper and paperboard, specialised machinery, electrical equipment for circuits, and manufactures of base metal. Preliminary trade figures provided by the Austrian Bureau of Statistics for 1 January to 31 December 2000 list Australia's most important export goods to Austria as being electrical machinery and equipment, pharmaceuticals, ores and metal waste, and measuring and controlling equipment. There has been a significant increase in the number of Austrian students travelling to Australia to study, and the education sector remains an area for further growth. In terms of Austrian investment in Australia, about 30 Austrian companies are currently represented in Australia either as trade offices or full-size companies.
Investment is in the areas of machinery, oil production, gambling and electrical industry.
The Embassy has conducted a series of investment and migration workshops at various Austrian venues to promote Australia as a business location and regional headquarters in the South East Asian region. These workshops have served to identify further Austrian interest. Australia's excellence in the automotive and the environment sectors and its technologically sophisticated economy have been at the centre stage of an integrated Australia promotion in the city of Graz in 2000, which also focussed on education and tourism. Australian investment in Austria is small and focusses on the areas of cinema operation, transport industry and retail. A major housing project in Vienna was recently built by an Australian architect.