Australian wine producers will face stiff competition and a significantly smaller market.
- Associate Professor, Co-Director of China International Business and Economic Law (CIBEL) Centre, Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW Sydney, UNSW
Abandoning its WTO case is a quicker path to getting Australian barley back into China. It could also be a template for resolving tariff disputes over other products, including Australian wine.
Meeting for the first time since 2017, the WTO’s highest decision-making body managed to agree on some things – including its first treaty with environmental protection as the objective.
Australia’s Prime Minister wants reform of the World Trade Organization to rein in China’s ‘economic coercion’. But it also needs to constructively engage with China on that reform.
A formal resolution off Australia’s complaint about Chinese barley tariffs will likely take years. But at least it starts a structured process for dialogue.
It might simply be because of all of Australia’s anti-dumping actions against China, or it might be an attempt to make Australia more malleable.
China believed the Murray Darling Basin Plan was about more than the environment. It wanted to know how much more.
China’s threat of punitive tariffs against Australian barley isn’t new.
In complaining about China’s alleged special treatment by the World Trade Organization, US President Donald Trump and Australia’s Scott Morrison are pointing to something that isn’t really there.
China’s so-called anti-dumping action against Australia is really an action against Australia’s overuse of anti-dumping provisions. Barley producers are caught in the crossfire.
Bill Shorten has proposed tripling penalties for dumping cheap overseas products like steel into the Australian market. But this proposal suggests a failure to understand dumping and its regulation.
Perselisihan perdagangan antara Australia dan Indonesia menyelidiki praktik anti-dumping Australia yang kontroversial di WTO.
A trade dispute between Australia and Indonesia shines a spotlight on Australia’s controversial ‘anti-dumping’ practices at the World Trade Organisation.
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