Australia China Trade War Intensifies – Burning Issues -Free PDF Download

• After this, two more Australian journalists working in China were questioned and declared persons of interest in the Cheng Lee detention case.

 As a result…

• There are no more Chinese reporters employed by the Australian media left in the country, a first since the 1970s.

China Posts Fake Image of Aus Soldier

• Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lijian Zhao posted a fabricated image which portrayed an Australian soldier with a bloody knife next to a child.
• The child is seen holding a lamb.

• Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Beijing should be “utterly ashamed” for sharing the “repugnant” image.
• Beijing has now said that Australia was trying to “blame China for the worsening of bilateral ties”.

Australian wine exporters face fresh blow

• Nov 6: The Chinese government verbally suspended seven Australian products, namely barley, sugar, coal, copper, log timber, lobsters and wine.
• Dec 1: Australian trade minister Simon Birmingham said those wine shipments, which have not yet cleared Chinese customs, will be subject to the new tariffs.

Comments by a Wine Exporter

• “All our hard work, commitment and investment in the relationship of our clients in China have been in vain,” she said.
• “The whole industry is devastated. Business and ordinary people suffer from politicians’ failure in handling diplomacy. Let’s see what the governments will do now to give us back hope.”

Anti-dumping duties of up to 212.1 per cent

• China’s commerce ministry announced on Friday that it would impose provisional anti-dumping duties starting on Saturday, even though its investigation into whether Australian wine was being systemically dumped at low prices would not finish until next August.

The duties will range from 107.1 to 212.1 per cent.

• An anti-dumping duty is a protectionist tariff that a domestic government imposes on foreign imports that it believes are priced below fair market value

• Those not specifically listed will have to pay an interim duty of 212.1 per cent, higher than the 202.7 per cent duty originally pitched by the Wine Industry Association of China.

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