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Editor's note
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Often in international disputes, we are given only one side of the story.
The side we’ve been given about China’s threat to impose punitive tariffs on the import of Australian barley is that it came out of the blue and was payback for Australia’s decision to push for an international inquiry into the origins of COVID-19.
This morning Weihuan Zhou reminds us that China’s so-called anti-dumping investigation into Australian barley has been going on for 18 months. He wrote about it in The Conversation when it began in late
2018.
If anything, it is payback for the extraordinary number of anti-dumping actions Australia has launched against China, in which it has accused it of dumping underpriced products including steel in the Australian market in order to harm Australian producers.
Australia has launched more anti-dumping actions against China than it has against any other country, and far more than China has launched in return. Barley turns out to be a particularly useful way to hit back.
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Peter Martin
Section Editor, Business and Economy
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