Farmers are worried about an escalation of a trade row between Australia and China spreading beyond beef and barley.
But National Farmers' Federation president Fiona Simpson is quick to point out the investigation into barley dumping has been in place for 18 months, while on beef she said it is a a technicality around labelling, something that has been an issue in the past.
"So I think it's concerning if these sorts of shock waves and threats do actually start to come," she said. But China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi has lashed out at foreign politicians for politicising the epidemic.
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