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China Halts Import of Key Australian Commodities

Tensions between China and Australia have risen as China halts the import of goods from Australia. In the most comprehensive reprisal to date, China ordered its traders to refrain from procuring any of the following seven Australian commodities: coal, barley, copper ore and concentrate, sugar, timber, wine, and lobsters. The retaliatory ban by China against ...

Jack Roberts

A cargo ship on its way from Hong Kong to New Zealand.