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China-Australia relations: Canberra lashes out at China’s barley duties at WTO
- Australia made a stinging critique of China’s anti-dumping duties on its barley exports at the World Trade Organization (WTO) this week
- Canberra claims that China’s investigation is flawed, but Australia has yet to launch a formal dispute at the Geneva institution
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Australia lashed out at China’s anti-dumping duties on its barley exports in a statement made at the World Trade Organization (WTO) this week, Geneva sources said.
The statement was made at a meeting of the WTO’s Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices on Wednesday.
Australian WTO officials criticised China’s investigation into whether Australia was dumping cheap barley on the market, and claimed that a flawed probe led to a miscalculation of the duties charged.
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China has been engaged in an increasingly tense trade dispute with Australia over the course of this year, with duties, embargoes and tariffs imposed on a range of Australian products, including barley, coal, wine, cotton and beef.
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After an 18 month investigation, China’s Ministry of Commerce ruled in May that Australian barley was being both undervalued and subsidised. This was followed by a combined 80.5 per cent tariff being imposed, consisting of 73.6 per cent in anti-dumping duties and 6.9 per cent in countervailing duties.
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