China used anti-dumping rules against us because what goes around comes around
- Written by Simon Lacey, Senior Lecturer in International Trade, University of Adelaide
Australia has acted with dismay to China’s decision to impose punitive mostly “anti-dumping” tariffs of 80.5% on imports of Australian barley.
The culmination of an 18-month investigation, China’s move threatens to wipe out Australian barley exports to China, worth A$600 million in 2019, unless China withdraws the measure either unilaterally or following a successful challenge at the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
However poorly justified, there are precedents for what China has done, many of them from Australia.
Australian anti-dumping and countervailing measures by country, March 2020
Authors: Simon Lacey, Senior Lecturer in International Trade, University of Adelaide