https://indaily.com.au/news/2020/08/...r-cent-tariff/
Argentina not asking for a probe into this Corona Virus you see.Three months after imposing an 80 per cent tariff on Australian barley imports, China has turned to Argentina for supplies of the grain used for livestock feed and beer.
And after Covid.....and economic shutdown.....Australian Grain Industry losing 500 million a year? Is that meaningless?National peak body GrainGrowers said in May that te tariffs will disrupt and most likely halt exports to China until the situation is resolved. It estimated the dispute could cost Australian grain industry and regional economies at least $500 million a year.
China choosing Argentina over Australia. This article speaks to a "China-Australia" conflict.“It’s clear that China is choosing Argentina, very aggressively, as a new provider of barley,” said Agustin Baque, a farm consultant and commodities trader specialising in barley, based in the Atlantic port city of Necochea.
Baque said the China-Australia conflict was pushing up demand for both beer and feed barley. “For 2021 we have business confirmed for 380,000 tonnes of Argentine barley to be exported to China, 180,000 of which will be malting barley,” he said.
China...seemingly in conflict with the globe.