Two-way trade between China and Australia was worth around A$240 billion (US$170 billion) between July 2019 to June 2020, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Photo: Bloomberg
Australia’s US$750 million cotton trade with China targeted, with mills ‘discouraged’ from purchases
- Cotton Australia and the Australian Cotton Shippers Association confirm reports of a verbal directive for Chinese spinning mills to stop using Australian cotton
- It emerged at the weekend that China had also verbally told steel mills and power stations to stop buying Australian coking and thermal coal
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China-Australia relations
Two-way trade between China and Australia was worth around A$240 billion (US$170 billion) between July 2019 to June 2020, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Photo: Bloomberg