{"id":4250,"date":"2020-12-15T18:05:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T18:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/?p=4250"},"modified":"2020-12-15T18:05:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T18:05:01","slug":"australia-deeply-troubled-by-reports-of-chinese-restrictions-on-its-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2020\/12\/15\/australia-deeply-troubled-by-reports-of-chinese-restrictions-on-its-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia ‘Deeply Troubled’ by Reports of Chinese Restrictions on its Coal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The trade fight between China and Australia appears to be escalating, with Beijing reportedly placing new restrictions on imports of Australian coal. Australian Trade Minister Simon Birmingham on Tuesday said he was “deeply troubled” by new reports in Chinese state media that the country’s top economic planner has effectively banned certain coal imports from Australia. The Global Times\u00a0reported <\/a>last weekend\u00a0that the country’s National Development and Reform Commission has given power plants approval to buy overseas coal without restrictions \u2014 except from Australia. If true, the reports “would indicate discriminatory trade practices being deployed by Chinese authorities,” Birmingham told Australia’s Radio National. China has already banned or slapped tariffs on a range of other Australian exports. Asked by reporters on Tuesday about the reports, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs directed questions to the “relevant authorities,” but spokesman Wang Wenbin did acknowledge that “Chinese authorities have recently taken relevant measures against certain Australian products exported to China in accordance with the law and regulations.” Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, meanwhile,\u00a0told reporters in Australia on Tuesday\u00a0that the government is “seeking clarification” on the reports, adding that the country has yet to hear from the Chinese government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If these reports that China is blocking Australian coal are true, one can assume this would be a detrimental outcome for the trading relation between the two nations, especially since relations have already been deteriorating after Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison called for an international inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. The outcome would also severely affect Australia’s economy since Australia makes approximately $10.5 billion off of coal exports to China alone in a year. This coal ban also poses the question on whether or not China will expand their ban onto additional Australian exports such as iron ore and cooking coal used in steelmaking which could further hurt the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/12\/15\/business\/australia-coal-trade-china-intl-hnk\/index.html The trade fight between China and Australia appears to be escalating, with Beijing reportedly placing new restrictions on imports of Australian coal. Australian Trade Minister Simon Birmingham on Tuesday said he was “deeply troubled” by new reports in Chinese state media that the country’s top economic planner has effectively banned certain coal imports from Australia. The Global Times\u00a0reported last… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4251,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions\/4251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}