Topics: Barley WTO; Australia-China trade relations, Jobkeeper 17/12/2020 07:20AM/AM Sylvia Jeffreys: Well Australia is officially taking China to task over barley tariffs this morning, calling in global umpire, the World Trade Organization, as the trade war escalates. But Beijing’s pointing the finger right back, accusing Australia of breaching its Free Trade Agreement by blocking…
Topics: Barley WTO; Australia-China relationship, 17/12/2020 07:14AM Monique Wright: Well, Australia is officially taking China to the World Trade Organization over tariffs on barley as our trade dispute escalates. Earlier this year, Beijing imposed an 80 per cent import tariff on Australian barley, claiming that we were dumping it on the market by selling…
Topics: Australia to initiate WTO action for tariffs imposed on Australian barley by China 16/12/2020 12:18 PM Simon Birmingham: Late yesterday out of courtesy Australian officials in Canberra, Beijing and at the World Trade Organization in Geneva advised their Chinese counterparts of Australia’s intention to request formal consultations with China in relation to the…
Topics: Australia-China trade relations; foreign interference; tourism industry; cruise industry 15/12/2020 12:15PM Joe Hildebrand: Another big thing in the news, of course, is the trade war with China appears to have escalated again. The Chinese-English language newspaper, The Global Times, which is basically just a propaganda sheet for the Chinese Communist Party, has reported…
Topics: Australia-China trade relationship 12/15/2020 10:07AM Simon Birmingham: Thanks, thanks very much for coming along today. We’ve seen further deeply disturbing and concerning reports out of China in the last 24 hours in relation to Australian exports, and particularly as it relates to exports of Australian coal. Our government is very, very concerned…
Topics: Australia-China trade relations; Travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand. 15/12/2020 08:47AM Spence Denny: But the other aspect in Simon Birmingham portfolio at the moment is what’s going on with China. We know that there have been trade restrictions over the last couple of months involving our wine and other products. And now…
Topics: Australian coal exports to China; Australia-China trading relationship. 15/12/20 06:18AM Fran Kelly: And the breaking news this morning is that Australian coal exports appear, to China that is, appear to have been formally blocked. This comes after months of import restrictions that have thrown the $14 billion export coal industry into turmoil. For…
Topics: Campaign to get more backpackers from New Zealand to travel to Australia. 10/12/20 5:11PM Scott Emerson: Now, there’s a new campaign that’s been kicked off to try to get Kiwis to come to Australia to help out our farms and fruit picking there. Now the man behind all that is the Tourism and…
Topics: trade relations with China, industrial relations reform, NZ backpackers 10/12/20 4:24PM Patricia Karvelas: Simon Birmingham is the Minister for Finance, Trade and Tourism and Investment and I spoke to him a short time ago. [Excerpt] Minister, welcome. Simon Birmingham: Thanks, Patricia. Great to be with you. Patricia Karvelas: We’re…
Topics: New Zealand working holiday maker campaign; Australia-China trade relations 10/12/2020 07:48AM Russel Howcroft: Young New Zealanders will be encouraged to travel to Australia over summer to help fill labour shortages on farms and in regional tourism towns as part of an ad campaign to try and offset the impacts of the international border…