Australia’s new demand to China following backdown on barely tariffs

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Australia will urgently press China to remove punitive tariffs on wine following Beijing’s backdown on barley. The decision to remove the barley tariff put an end to the three-year dispute that Australia took to the World Trade Organisation. Agriculture Minister Murray Watt said the move showed the rift between Beijing and Canberra was thawing. But he said the government’s next focus was removing the restrictions on Australian wine. “We see wine as the next cab off the rank,” Senator Watt told ABC’s RN Breakfast. “We’ve always made clear that we see wine as just as urgent as barley and for...