China’s Foreign Ministry says its sanctions on Australian exports are legal and ‘beyond reproach’.
China has defended its trade sanctions on $20 billion worth of Australian exports as “beyond reproach” in a rebuff toIn the strongest sign so far Beijing has no appetite to back down and remove the sanctions, China’s Foreign Ministry said the restrictions imposed on Australian wine, beef, barley, coal, seafood, cotton and other goods was in line with Chinese law and World Trade Organisation rules.
Commodities traders in China have this week been talking up the possibility of Beijing being forced to ease restrictions on Australian coal toalthough there has been no official sign from the government that this would happen.
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