Australia: taking China to WTO over wine tariffs enables negotiations

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Bottles of Australian wine are considered at a retailer selling imported wine in Beijing, China November 27, 2020. REUTERS/Florence Lo

By Lidia Kelly

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia’s complaint to the World Alternate Organisation over China’s anti-dumping duties on wine exports should always allow bilateral negotiations, International Minister Marise Payne acknowledged on Sunday.

The executive filed a complaint on Saturday over duties that bear been applied final year and practically about worn out exports of Australian wine to the Chinese language market. [L5N2O103C]

“What lodging the dispute enables us to assemble is initiate up dispute session settlements, which in actuality is a bilateral discussion with China referring to the points,” Payne acknowledged in an interview on the Australian Broadcasting Corp’s (ABC) ‘Insiders’ program.

“We now bear considered duties of over 200% applied to Australian wine. We don’t judge that that’s in step with China’s duties under the WTO. So as that segment of the formula enables us to bear that say conversation.”

The Australian executive has complained continuously that China has neglected calls to ease commerce tensions.

It is miles the second time in six months Australia has appealed to the WTO. In December, Canberra launched a formal charm searching for a overview of China’s decision to impose hefty tariffs on imports of Australian barley.

Relations with China, already rocky after Australia banned Huawei from its nascent 5G broadband networking in 2018, bear worsened since Canberra called for an world inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus, first reported in central China final year.

China, Australia’s largest buying and selling accomplice, answered by imposing tariffs on Australian commodities, at the side of wine and barley and restricted imports of Australian red meat, coal and grapes, strikes described by the united states as “financial coercion”.

Asked referring to the original world push to win solutions to the origin of the virus that causes COVID-19, Payne acknowledged it used to be crucial to care for the momentum.

“We are very positive to work with our companions to assemble positive that that (…) investigation is in a spot apart to earn entry to its area matter that it wants, at the side of within China,” Payne acknowledged.

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