News
More than 40 per cent of South Australian wineries experienced a decrease in sales in the 2020-21 financial year as Chinese tariffs, labour shortages and the coronavirus pandemic generated unprecedented challenges to growth, a local wine industry report has found.
Business
The volume of wine exports to all six of Australia’s biggest customers fell in the 12 months to September 30 despite efforts to find new markets in the wake of crippling China tariffs.
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Australia’s Trade Minister says it’s “deeply frustrating” that China refuses to discuss its “unacceptable” targeting of Australian exports, with lamb joining wine, beef, coal, barley and timber on the unofficial hit list and wheat and cotton producers bracing as the trade dispute worsens.
Wine, coal, barley, lobsters and timber have been targeted in recent months, but it’s iron ore exports to China that should be the main concern for Australia’s economy. And that should prompt a focus on alternatives to underpin future prosperity, argue Rod Tyers and Yixiao Zhou.
China is set to impose duties on Australian wine of between 107 and 212 per cent from tomorrow following an “anti-dumping” inquiry announced as part of a suite of measures in past months targeting Australian exports.
Chinese media reports that authorities are planning to halt imports of Australian wine, lobsters, sugar, coal, copper, barley and timber are “deeply troubling”, Trade Minister Simon Birmingham says.
