No, I don’t. This is a program that’s been going on for 18 months. This review has been a subject raised at various meetings with the Chinese leadership, including premier Xi Jinping last year.
It’s been an ongoing issue between our two countries. We saw the level of trade of barley to China fall from 1.7bn to 600m.
So I think it’s, it would be, I think we have to be careful not to draw lines. We would expect and hope that this issue will be determined on its merits.
It’s an anti-dumping issue from their perspective. They certainly haven’t raised it as connected to other issues. I would be extremely disappointed if it was.
There’s no reason for me to think, based on the way that they’re approaching it, that I could draw that conclusion.
It’s important we just deal with this on its merits, as we have been for some time now. We believe that trade is incredibly important and beneficial for both countries. Anti-dumping regimes, we respect.
We have anti-dumping regimes here. We have had anti-dumping inquiries in relation to Chinese products to Australia.
Not all those decisions were well received.
They’ve been made on the merits and I would hope and expect China to do the same thing.
