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Australian businesses stop exporting to China due to risk as trade tensions hit home
Amid ongoing trade tensions between Canberra and Beijing, some Australian exporters are now so scared of having their products rejected at customs they have stopped shipping to China.
Key points:
- Some Australian exporters fear their products will not make it into China while there are extra checks at the border
- Agriculture Minister David Litteproud says he takes it “on face value” when China says it is not discriminating against Australian products
- After months of escalating tensions, China’s foreign ministry spokesman has noted “positive” comments made by Prime Minister Scott Morrison
Exporter Andrew Ferguson recently had three shipments of live lobsters die in China because of lengthy delays in customs testing.
China began more stringent…
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