Beijing Lifts Import Restrictions on Australian Lobster
China notified Australia on Dec. 20 that it’s officially resuming imports of Australian live rock lobster that Beijing had restricted for years (see 2410110007), Australia’s foreign affairs ministry said last week. Australia called the announcement a “major win for our hard-hit live rock lobster industry,” and it shows the value of a “patient, calibrated, and deliberate approach towards stabilising Australia’s relations with China."
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China has gradually lifted some trade restrictions it has imposed against Australia in recent years, including on certain meat processing facilities in May (see 2405300016). The Australian ministry said the country faced Chinese import restrictions on wine, barley, coal, cotton, timber logs, oaten hay, copper ores and concentrates” and more when Prime Minister Anthony Albanese entered office in 2022. The “removal of restrictions on lobster marks the resolution of all outstanding impediments to trade from that period.”