“It doesn’t get any better than this,” the Trade Minister Don Farrell remarked, framed by the city’s shimmering high-rise skyline.
On the rooftop of Shanghai’s luxury Kimpton Hotel, an ebullient Don Farrell sipped a Clare Valley shiraz as he hovered over a sizzling frypan, cooking up the famed surf and turf dish that is a mainstay on every good Australian RSL menu.
A cooking demonstration in Shanghai with Trade and Tourism Minister Don Farrell and chef Heidi Dugan.A small coterie of Australian and Chinese guests, who watched the signing of a $30 million deal to sell Teys Australia beef on e-commerce platform Dingdong in 2025, were the live audience. Farrell’s one-day blitz of Shanghai on Monday was a veritable festival of Australian wine, beef and lobster –Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao had assured him in a meeting the evening before – the pair’s ninth meeting in 2½ years – that the last bans on lobster and beef would be removed by the year’s end, in line with the promise made to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese by China’s premier last month.
“I say to all of the Chinese buyers here today, you won’t find any better products at this trade fair than Australian food, wine, manufacturers – anything you want!” the minister exhorted. For now, Farrell says special exemptions for Australian businesses are not on his radar. Instead, the government will seek to flex its influence with its closest ally to persuade a potential Trump administration to abandon its tariff pledge altogether.
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