“It was a very, very warm and engaging meeting, a candid meeting with the Trade Minister,” Farrell mentioned on Today.
“We’ve explained just how much damage these tariffs and other bans have done to our trading relationship and we’ve asked for the Chinese government to lift these bans.
“There are some good indicators, Australian cotton is again into Chinese markets, identical with copper.
“We’re well down the track of resolving the dispute over barley, and of course we’re going to use the processes that we developed to resolve the barley dispute with wine.”
Farrell mentioned the method is happening incrementally, and vital progress is anticipated throughout the subsequent two months.
“The problems didn’t occur overnight,” he mentioned.
“They won’t be resolved overnight, but we’ve got to persevere and persist – that’s my job.
“The barley dispute, we count on to be resolved within the subsequent month or two.
“That’s well down the track – all of the information I got from the ambassador and our officials in Beijing was very, very positive.
“But we’re working via every of the problems.”
In 2020, China imposed an 80.5 per cent combined tariff on Australian barley exports in as relations between Canberra and Beijing hit a low point.
Since then, Chinese authorities have also imposed trade sanctions on other Australian good such as coal, wine and seafood.
Source: www.9news.com.au
