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| Down Under |
| China fires another shot in diplomatic war of words: Beijing threatens to impose an EIGHTY per cent import tax on Australian produce as relations between the nations continue to sour |
| 2020-05-10 |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #12 If only there was a big economy country with a booming craft beer industry to take this high quality product off our hands... |
| Posted by: Grunter 2020-05-10 21:04 |
| #11 This is on barley, probably malting barley, which means beer. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2020-05-10 21:01 |
| #10 Does this mean the CCP has a Sheep Corona-virus it's getting ready to ship to Oz? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2020-05-10 17:48 |
| #9 Lamb's really expensive. Love it but not sure there's any realistic way to significantly increase lamb production |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-05-10 14:20 |
| #8 Countries other than China are not going to take kindly to threats from the ChiComs. This will end badly for China, the people and the CCP. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2020-05-10 13:00 |
| #7 As I understand, with a couple exceptions, that if you want beef in Asia, it is Australian, or it is Something Else. Great messaging - come back to China, Wet Markets are open! But if you want not-Chinese food, you will pay twice what you did before. f'em. And nothing wrong with lamb. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-05-10 12:05 |
| #6 Why China's threat to the Australian economy was a GOOD thing: Former bureaucrat says menacing message highlights bullying tactics What's the name of this guy (Lord something) who burned the winter palace? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-05-10 10:26 |
| #5 The US isn't a big consumer of lamb/mutton, but if Australia ran an ad campaign emphasizing that buying their lamb we'd be supporting an old friend against China, I think that could change. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2020-05-10 10:22 |
| #4 Great. Taxes/tariffs. A sure-fire way to screw things up for Chinese consumers and Australian producers. Nobody wins. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-05-10 09:50 |
| #3 Well, they don't need Australian lambs - they've meat on the wing. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-05-10 09:42 |
| #2 This can work out well. I've always thought that the US had a severe lamb shortage. Mary from Oz, bring your little lamb. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2020-05-10 09:37 |
| #1 Chine has excess supply of food? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-05-10 09:22 |