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One year of China-Australia trade tensions
Relations between China and Australia have become fraught over the past year after Canberra pushed for an international probe into the origin of the coronavirus without diplomatic consultations beforehand, and Beijing eventually responded with a number of trade blocks on wine, barley, cotton, copper, coal, sugar and lobsters. We look at the issues in this series.
Updated: 31 May, 2021
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One year on, China-Australia trade conflict gains new battleground: hay
Hay-licence problems are just the latest in a series of trade difficulties resulting from the war of words that erupted one year ago between Canberra and Beijing over the coronavirus origin.
19 Apr, 2021
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Explainer | One year on, what’s happened in the China-Australia trade conflict?
China and Australia have been locked in a trade dispute for the past year that shows little sign of easing, raising questions about whether the trading relationship can be restored.
20 Apr, 2021
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Chinese, Australian traders eye spirits to ‘survive’ wine-related disruptions
With China having imposed anti-dumping duties of up to 218.4 per cent on Australian wine, some exporters are being forced to diversify away from the once-lucrative industry.
21 Apr, 2021
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What can Australia do with 11,000 tonnes of lobsters that used to go to China?
Following their 2015 trade agreement, most of Australia’s rock lobster supply started going to China, but ‘re-engaging old markets again will take time’ after they were ‘ignored’ for years.
22 Apr, 2021
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Will China’s appetite for Australian iron ore spare it from trade conflict?
Smaller Australian exporters of products like lobster will struggle to quickly find alternative markets to China, analysts say, but iron ore miners have little to be concerned about due to the nation’s outsize role in the global iron ore trade.
23 Apr, 2021
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Consumers pockets in China, Australia will foot the bill for ‘trade battle’
Australia has taken its dispute over China’s anti-dumping duties imposed on its barley to the World Trade Organization, but the issue could still take years to resolve, meaning importers and consumers will be the ones who ultimately suffer.
24 Apr, 2021
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