カテゴリー: International trade
Wellington says Covid-19 transmission is not an issue after produce from two facilities are blocked after video auditsNew Zealand was urgently seeking clarification from Chinese authorities after being informed that exports from two of its seafood faci…
Deal set to anger incoming Biden administration in US, which demanded to be consulted before deal went aheadChina and the EU appear to have resolved their differences over protecting labour rights in China and are set to sign a long-delayed investment …
Australia, whose early call for inquiry sparked furious Chinese response, says it expects ‘robust, independent and comprehensive’ reportAustralia is pushing to ensure the global inquiry it helped trigger into the early handling of the Covid-19 pandemic…
Nanaia Mahuta says Canberra and Beijing ‘will have to be willing to come together and concede in some areas’New Zealand’s new foreign minister has said the country could help negotiate a truce between Australia and regional heavyweight China with the t…
Prime minister says if the Chinese state media reports are correct the ban would be a breach of WTO rulesScott Morrison has accused China of breaching international trade rules and its agreement with Australia through its reported ban on Australian coa…
Inflammatory image posted by foreign ministry spokesman draws revulsion across political spectrum but disagreement on Australia’s responseAn inflammatory tweet by China’s foreign ministry spokesman about alleged war crimes in Afghanistan has emboldened…
Opposition party’s ‘disgusting’ offal protest prompts scuffle in Taipei legislative yuanParliamentarians in Taiwan have thrown pig guts at each other before coming to blows over plans to allow US meat imports.Members of the opposition Chinese nationali…
Countries emphasise potential for cooperation and future partnerships, which Beijing opposesTaiwan and the United States have held their first high-level meetings under a new economic dialogue, inking a five-year agreement and pledging future cooperati…
President tells Apec the major regional trade pact signed on Sunday, which excludes the US, will drive global growthPresident Xi Jinping has pegged China as the pivot point for global free trade, vowing to keep his “super-sized” economy open and warnin…
Additional sanctions are rumours, Simon Birmingham says, but the China Daily warns of further economic pain if Australia is hostile to BeijingA major Australian business group has called on the Morrison government to take China to the world trade umpir…
Australian wine exporters have reportedly suspended shipments amid fears officials in Beijing are about to bar a range of goodsThe Morrison government has accused China of heightening trade risks and breaching Xi Jinping’s own public pledges as a range…
With UK’s Liam Fox eliminated the contest is now between Yoo Myung-hee and Ngozi Okonjo-IwealaThe World Trade Organization is set to be run by a woman for the first time in its 25-year history after it was announced that the final choice to be its new …
President says he has to ‘do something’ about the body after it rules that duties on $200bn worth of Chinese goods breached regulations The United States has described the World Trade Organization as “completely inadequate” after it criticised the Trum…
Elders chief says Australia’s trade with China is being used as a ‘weapon for foreign affairs’Agricultural business leaders concerned about the impact rising tensions with China will have on exports are hoping to explore a “separation of powers” betwee…
Ottawa’s refusal to swap Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou for detainees Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor means it faces some hard choicesFor more than 560 days, comforted only by a small collection of books and meals of boiled rice in Chinese jail cells, two Can…