Australian Trade Minister Simon Birmingham has accused China of breaching its own free trade deals. China signed a bilateral free trade agreement with Australia in June 2015 after a decade of negotiations and last year bought $150billion worth of Australian exports. Despite the agreement coming into force five years ago this month, China has imposed 200 per cent tariffs on Australian wines and 80 per cent import taxes on Australian barley, along with restrictions on Australian exports of beef, timber, lobster and even coal. Lamb is the latest export to incur China’s trade wrath. Senator Birmingham has hit back at China, accusing it of breaching the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement and its obligations to the World Trade Organisation. ‘The Australian government has become increasingly concerned about a series of trade disruptive and restrictive measures implemented by the Chinese government on a wide range of goods imported from China and that these disruptions have increased significantly in recent months,’ he told the Senate on Wednesday morning. Scroll down for video Australian Trade Minister Simon Birmingham has accused China of breaching its own free trade deals. He told the Senate on Wednesday morning the tariffs and restrictions on Australian exports breached the… Read full this story
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