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Australia is pursuing separate complaints about Chinese tariffs on wine and barley, with the WTO preparing to hand down its decisions in the first half of 2023. Senator Farrell played down the prospect of Australia dropping the cases. It comes after he told The Australian he would consider withdrawing them “on the basis that there’s some goodwill shown on both sides”. Asked if he would withdraw the complaint to help protect Australia’s thawing relationship with Beijing, Senator Farrell told the national broadcaster: “No we’re not”. “When you have trade disputes that can’t be resolved by discussion, that’s your only alternative...
